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Max N. Helveston joined DePaul in 2011. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow, editor of the Yale Law Journal, and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Prior to coming to DePaul, he clerked for the Hon. Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. Professor Helveston’s teaches and writes in the areas of consumer protection, insurance, health, and commercial law. His work has recently appeared in the Georgia Law Journal, the Washington University Law Review, and the New York University Journal of Law and Business.

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Max N. Helveston joined DePaul in 2011. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow, editor of the Yale Law Journal, and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. Prior to coming to DePaul, he clerked for the Hon. Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and worked as a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. Professor Helveston’s teaches and writes in the areas of consumer protection, insurance, health, and commercial law. His work has recently appeared in the Georgia Law Journal, the Washington University Law Review, and the New York University Journal of Law and Business.

Present	Professor of Law, DePaul University ‐ DePaul University College of Law
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RILF1-N, Consumer protection laws, Regulation of consumer data, Consumer disclosure requirements and regulations, Health insurance regulation, Property and casualty insurance law, Medical device liability law, Contract law, Big data and privacy law, Law, and Government and law

Reining in Commercial Exploitation of Consumer Data (Max N Helveston) Penn State Law Review (2019)

The collection and use of consumer data by commercial entities has quickly transitioned from being an obscure topic to a headlining issue in leading media outlets. The burgeoning societal awareness of how digital devices are ...

Regulating Digital Markets (Max N. Helveston) NYU Journal of Law & Business (2016)

It has become popular for scholars and non-academic commentators to claim that technological advances have reshaped consumer markets and empowered individuals. Some have argued that the digitization of commerce has leveled the playing field between ...

Consumer Protection in the Age of Big Data (Max N Helveston) Washington University Law Review (2016)

The Big Data revolution is upon us. Technological advances in the degree to which third parties can record information about individuals, along with increases in the use of predictive analytics, are transforming the way that ...

Judicial Deregulation of Consumer Markets (Max N. Helveston) Cardozo Law Review (2015)

The dangers posed by insufficiently regulated consumer markets are both real and monumental. While the rights of consumers expanded drastically in the mid-to-late twentieth century, these protections have weakened in the new millennium. One of ...

Preemption Without Borders: The Modern Conflation of Tort and Contract Liabilities (Max N. Helveston) Georgia Law Review (2014)

Medical device jurisprudence has taken a turn for the worse recently, turning a deaf ear to patients who have been injured or killed by devices and covertly expanding the boundaries of federal preemption in ways ...

The Incoherent Role of Bargaining Power in Contract Law (Max N. Helveston and Michael S. Jacobs) Wake Forest Law Review (2014)

Contracts that result from the abuse of unequal bargaining power have long been a concern of contract law. Courts have proscribed efforts by the "powerful" to take unfair advantage of the "weak" through contracts of ...

Promoting Justice Through Public Interest Advocacy in Class Actions (Max N. Helveston) Buffalo Law Review (2012)

Class action litigation is in a dire state. Recent high-profile decisions have highlighted disturbing trends that have been building for years — courts denying certification to classes of individuals whose claims deserve aggregate treatment and ...

Regulating Digital Markets: 2017 SEALS Annual Conference (Max N Helveston) SEALS Annual Conference (2017)

Beyond Disclosure: Empowering Health Care Consumers (Max N Helveston) 40th ASLME Annual Health Law Professors Conference, Georgia State University College of Law (2017)

22nd Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law & Social Policy: Privacy, Data Theft, and Corporate Responsibility (discussant) (Max N Helveston) 22nd Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law & Social Policy: Privacy, Data Theft, and Corporate Responsibility, DePaul University College of Law (2016)

Regulating Digital Markets: 11th International Conference on Contracts (Max N Helveston) 11th International Conference on Contracts, St. Mary’s University School of Law (2016)

Principle Based Reserving and Systemic Financial Risk (Max N Helveston) Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility: Workshop for Insurance Scholars, Rutgers Law School (2015)

Consumer Protection in the Age of Big Data (Max N Helveston) AALS Section on Insurance Law, Association of American Law Schools (2015)

Social Media’s Impact on the Regulation of Commercial Markets (Max N Helveston) University of Chicago Junior Faculty Workshop (2015)

Consumer Protection in the Age of Big Data (Max N Helveston) Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility: Workshop for Insurance Scholars, Rutgers Law School (2014)

2014 Workshop for Law Professors on Risk, Injury, and Insurance (Max N Helveston) George Mason Law and Economics Center – Workshop for Law Professors on Risk, Injury, and Insurance (2014)

The Talismanic Power of Bargaining Power in Contract Law (Max N Helveston) KCON-9: The 9th Annual Conference on Contracts, St. Thomas University School of Law (2014)

Reforming Insurance Markets in a Newly Formalist World: A Behavioral Realism Approach (Max N Helveston) Center for Risk and Responsibility - Workshop for Insurance Scholars, Rutgers-Camden School of Law (2013)

Fiduciary Law in Context: Comparative Law panel (Max N Helveston) Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law Conference, DePaul University College of Law (2013)

Preemption Without Borders: The Modern Conflation of Tort and Contract Liabilities (Max N Helveston) Valparaiso University Law School - Faculty Scholarship Conference (2012)