Prentiss Cox

Associate Clinical Professor of Law

190 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-6810

coxxx211@umn.edu

Oberlin College, B.A.
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.

Clinical Professor Prentiss Cox was an Assistant Attorney General and manager of the Consumer Enforcement Division in the Minnesota Attorney General's Office prior to joining the clinical faculty. He was also a law clerk for the Honorable P. H. Marshall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Professor Cox has prosecuted numerous nationally recognized cases involving predatory lending and subprime mortgage lending, foreclosure, credit card practices, and telemarketing fraud. He is a frequent speaker on consumer protection issues and is often quoted in local and national media on consumer law issues. Professor Cox has drafted and testified for numerous consumer protection laws related to mortgage lending, foreclosure fraud, telemarketing and other matters. Professor Cox has also been selected as a Minnesota "Super Lawyer."

For more information, download Professor Cox's CV.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practices in Minnesota (2007) (principal author and editor) (2nd Ed. forthcoming 2009).

Law Review Articles

Consumer Protection And Financial Institution Regulation, Pace L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).

Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Reasonably Radical Proposal, 45 U. Houston L. Rev. 683 (October 2008).

Goliath Has the Slingshot: Public Benefit and Private Enforcement of Minnesota Consumer Protection Laws, 33 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 163 (2006).

Foreclosure Equity Stripping: Legal Theories and Strategies to Attack a Growing Problem, Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy (March-April 2006).

Other Publications

Contributor, "National Consumer Law Center, Foreclosures" (2008 Suppl.) and "Cost of Credit" (2008 Suppl.)

Book Chapter, "Statutory Fraud" in Minnesota Business Torts (2008).

Contributor (Teacher's Manual), Haydock, Herr and Stempel, Fundamentals of Pretrial Litigation (6th Ed. West).

Regulatory Perspectives & Initiatives: State Attorney General Case Selection and Investigation, Practising Law Institute, Vol. 2 Consumer Financial Services Litigation Institute 379 (2006); Vol. 2 Consumer Financial Services Litigation Institute 491 (2005).