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Present	Director, Domestic Violence Clinical Advocacy Program, UIC School of Law
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2016 ISBA Excellence in Legal Education Award

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UIC John Marshall Law School

The University of Illinois at Chicago

300 S. State Street, MC 300

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Phone: 312.360.2650

Office: Room 929

Office Hours: Mon. & Weds. 4-5:45 p.m. or by appointment

Articles (47)

Got Bounded Rationality and Political Gridlock? There's a Loan Disclosure Hack for That (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Andrew Pizor) Cleveland State Law Review (2020)

For decades, Congress has primarily relied upon the use of mandatory disclosure forms to protect consumers from entering into ill-advised loans by disclosing the terms of an offered loan before the borrower enters into it. ...

Got Bounded Rationality and Political Gridlock? There's a Loan Disclosure Hack for That, 69 Clev. St. L. Rev. 105 (2020) (Debra P. Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Andrew Pizor) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2020)

Properly Accounting for Domestic Violence in Child Custody Cases: An Evidence-Based Analysis and Reform Proposal (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Sarah Elizabeth Wellard) Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2019)

Promoting the best interests of children and protecting their safety and well-being in the context of a divorce or parentage case where domestic violence has been alleged has become highly politicized and highly gendered. There ...

Properly Accounting for Domestic Violence in Child Custody Cases: An Evidence-Based Analysis and Reform Proposal, 26 Mich. J. Gender & L. 1 (2019) (Debra P. Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Sarah Wellard) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2019)

Promoting the best interests of children and protecting their safety and well-being in the context of a divorce or parentage case where domestic violence has been alleged has become highly politicized and highly gendered. There ...

Re-Imagining Law School Clinics: Leveraging Resources to Do More, for More, Under A Hybrid Model, 43 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 129 (2019) (Debra P. Stark and Christine Hunt) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2019)

Seeing the Wrecking Ball in Motion: Ex Parte Protection Orders and the Realities of Domestic Violence, 32 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 13 (2017) (Debra Pogrund Stark and Jessica M. Choplin) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2017)

One of the most fundamental norms in our judicial system is that courts need to hear from both parties on a legal issue before granting any form of legal relief. Nevertheless, rules of civil procedure ...

What’s Law Got To Do With It? Confronting Judicial Nullification Of Domestic Violence Remedies (Debra Pogrund Stark) Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy (2015)

What’s Law Got To Do With It? Confronting Judicial Nullification Of Domestic Violence Remedies, 10 Nw. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y. 130 (2015) (Debra Pogrund Stark) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2015)

In 1982, the Illinois legislature passed the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (the Act) and most recently passed an updated version in 2012. This Article examines how the specialized domestic violence courthouse in Chicago implements these ...

Complex Decision-Making and Cognitive Aging Call for Enhanced Protection of Seniors Contemplating Reverse Mortgages, 46 Ariz. St. L.J. 299 (2014) (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin, Joseph Mikels, et al.) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2014)

This article analyzes the factors that affect the effectiveness of the current rules and counseling protocol in enabling seniors to make well-informed decisions on whether to enter into a proposed reverse mortgage in light of ...

"Dodd-Frank 2.0: Creating Interactive Home-Loan Disclosures to Enable Shrewd Consumer Decision-Making" (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin, Mark LeBoeuf, et al.) Loyola Consumer Law Review (2014)

Dodd-Frank 2.0: Creating Interactive Home-Loan Disclosures to Enable Shrewd Consumer Decision-Making, 27 Loy. Consumer L. Rev. 95 (2014) (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin, Mark A. LeBoeuf, et al.) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2014)

In Section I, we summarize and analyze the Dodd-Frank laws that were enacted to regulate home loan terms and the key changes made to the home loan disclosure rules and forms, critiquing in particular the ...

Dysfunctional Contracts and the Laws and Practices That Enable Them: An Empirical Analysis, 46 Ind. L. Rev. 797 (2013) (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Eileen Linnabery) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2013)

While many courts refuse to strike down these clauses under the unconscionability test, this Article argues that the results from the Remedies Experiment should lead courts to adopt a different set of tests for ruling ...

Ineffective in Any Form: How Confirmation Bias and Distractions Undermine Improved Home-Loan Disclosures, 122 Yale L.J. Online 377 (2013) (Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin and Mark A. LeBoeuf) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2013)

Doomed to Fail: A Psychological Analysis of Mortgage Loan Disclosures and Policy Implications (Jessica Choplin and Debra P. Stark) Banking & Financial Services Policy Report (2013)

A Psychological Investigation of Consumer Vulnerability to Fraud: Legal and Policy Implication, 35 Law & Psychol. Rev. 61 (2011) (Jessica M. Choplin, Debra Pogrund Stark and Jasmine N. Ahmad) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2011)

Consumer Protection Initiatives in the EU Mortgage Market: A Behavioral Economics Based Critique and Proposal, 25 Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 1 (2011) (Debra Pogrund Stark and Jessica M. Choplin) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2011)

A Cognitive and Social Psychological Analysis of Disclosure Laws and Call for Mortgage Counseling To Prevent Predatory Lending, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 85 (2010) (Debra Pogrund Stark and Jessica M. Choplin) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2010)

Incorporating Transactional Skills Training Into First-Year Doctrinal Courses (Christina L. Kunz, Debra Pogrund Stark, Richard K. Neumann, Jr., et al.) Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law (2009)

A License to Deceive: Enforcing Contractual Myths Despite Consumer Psychological Realities, 5 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 617 (2009) (Debra Pogrund Stark and Jessica M. Choplin) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2009)

Incorporating Transactional Skills Training Into First-Year Doctrinal Courses (Christina L. Kunz, Debra Pogrund Stark, Richard K. Neumann, et al.) Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law (2009)

Contracts is not traditionally a transactional course. It is a contract litigation course that aims to answer the question, "What do I do if my client wants to escape from a contract or wants a ...

Incorporating Transactional Skills Training Into First-Year Doctrinal Courses (Christina L. Kunz, Debra Pogrund Stark, Richard K. Neumann, et al.) Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law (2009)

Contracts is not traditionally a transactional course. It is a contract litigation course that aims to answer the question, "What do I do if my client wants to escape from a contract or wants a ...

Incorporating Transactional Skills Training Into First-Year Doctrinal Courses, 10 Tenn. J. Bus. L. 346 (2009) (Debra Pogrund Stark) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2009)

Does Fraud Pay - An Empirical Analysis of Attorney's Fees Provisions in Consumer Fraud Statutes (Debra Pogrund Stark and Jessica M. Choplin) Cleveland State Law Review (2008)

The discretionary language in some consumer fraud statutes may cause consumers and lawyers to be less likely to decide to bring even a strong meritorious consumer fraud case, impeding the articulated legislative policy to promote ...

Does Fraud Pay? An Empirical Analysis of Attorney's Fees Provisions in Consumer Fraud Statutes, 56 Clev. St. L. Rev. 483 (2008) (Debra Pogrund Stark and Jessica M. Choplin) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2008)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like in Kelo?, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 609 (2007) (Debra Pogrund Stark) UIC Law Review (2007)