Professor David C. Vladeck
83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 2101
Published in Connection With the Law Review’s 2014 Symposium “The FTC at 100”
The 100th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or
“Commission”) provides an opportunity to celebrate the Commission’s enviable
record of accomplishment. It also gives Commission watchers a chance to
reflect on how the lessons learned during the Commission’s first hundred
years might inform the agency’s leadership in charting the Commission’s
course for its second hundred years. This Article focuses on two areas in
which the Commission has taken effective action to protect consumers—safeguarding
consumer privacy and combatting deceptive advertising—and argues
that these issues will continue to occupy center stage at the FTC and that
the Commission should consider fine-tuning the agency’s work to better protect
consumers.
