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Luke Herrine
I am an Assistant Professor of Law at Alabama Law. My research focuses primarily on consumer law and debt and the role of economic theory in shaping market governance. I also have interests in antitrust, regulated industries, administrative law, higher education, and beyond.
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Scholarly Publications
The Student Debt Reset, 114 CALIF. L. REV. __ (Forthcoming 2026)
Cutthroat Business, 103 N.C. L. REV. __ (Forthcoming 2025)
Unfairness, Reconstructed, 42 YALE J. REG. 95 (2025)
At the Nexus of Antitrust and Consumer Protection, 2023 UTAH L. REV. 849 (2023) (invited symposium
contribution)
What is Consumer Protection For?, 34 LOY. CONSUMER L. REV. 240 (2022)
The Folklore of Unfairness, 96 N.Y.U. L. REV. 431 (2021)
Competition Law as Collective Bargaining Law, in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF LABOUR IN COMPETITION LAW (2021) (with Nathan Tankus)
The Law and Political Economy of a Student Debt Jubilee, 68 BUFF. L. REV. 281 (2020)
Other Long-Form Writing
Politics and Expertise (book review at Phenomenal World)
An Administrative Path to Student Debt Cancellation (white paper for Great Democracy Initiative)
Blog Posts
On Writing Down our Dreams During a Living Nightmare (at LPE Blog)
Did More Competition Make Meatpacking Fairer? (at LPE Blog)
Have You Heard the Good News about Consumer Protection? (at LPE Blog)
What is Efficiency? An Opinionated Guide (at LPE Blog)
Seven Reactions to Biden v. Nebraska (at LPE Blog)
Some Short Circuits in the Rewiring of Regulatory Review (at LPE Blog)
Paradigms, Politics, and Policy Statements at the CFPB (at Notice & Comment)
Seven Reactions to the FTC’s Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition (at LPE Blog)
The Politics of the Law of Biden’s Student Debt Jubilee (at LPE Blog)
On Price Gouging and the Non-ideal Theory of Fair Price (at LPE Blog)
Eight Reactions to NFIB v. Dept of Labor (at LPE Blog)
Markets: Collective Bargaining All the Way Down (at LPE Blog)
A Tribute to David Graeber (at LPE Blog)
Historicizing Consumer Protection (at LPE Blog)
Consumer Protection after Consumer Sovereignty (at LPE Blog)
Executive Action as Power Building: A Response to Professor Doerfler (at LPE Blog)
Debtor Organizing Against Neoliberalism (at LPE Blog)
On Reuniting Legal Realism with Moral Pragmatism (at LPE Blog)
Selected Press Hits
Time: Biden’s Student Loan Plan Probably Won’t Work, Experts Say
New York Times: How Biden Might Try to Cancel Student Debt Next
New Republic: The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
Capitol Forum: The FTC Should Reject the Conventional Folklore around its Unfairness Authority
Vox: Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Plan to Bypass Congress and Erase Student Debt, Explained
NPR: Cancelling Student Debt is Easier than it Sounds
Contact
Email: lherrine@law.ua.edu
Twitter/X: @ldherrine
Bluesky: @lookheron.bsky.social
Luke Herrine 