The Cambridge Handbook of Marketing and the Law

Jacob Gersen is Sidley Austin Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Affiliate Professor in the Department of Government, and Director of the Food Law Lab, which supports academic research on the legal treatment of food in society. He is also the coeditor of Food Law & Policy. Joel Steckel is Professor of Marketing at New York University Stern School of Business. Steckel was the founding president of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science and has published numerous articles in publications including Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, The Trademark Reporter, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, University of Chicago Law Review, and Emory Law Journal.

Introduction; Part I. Understanding Consumer Behavior: 1. The purchase funnel and litigation Laura O'Laughlin and Catherine Tucker; 2. Implications of the consumer journey to traditional consumer surveys for litigation Chad Hummel, Ben Mundel and Jerry Wind; 3. 'They ruined popcorn': on the costs and benefits of mandatory labels Cass R. Sunstein; 4. Valuation of personal data: assessing potential harm from unauthorized access and misuse of personal information in consumer class actions Vildan Altuglu, Lorin M. Hitt, Samid Hussain and Matteo Li Bergolis; Part II. Understanding Marketing Phenomena: 5. 'The persistence of false reference prices: theory and empirical evidence' Yiting Deng, Richard Staelin and Joe Urbany; 6. Brand value, marketing spending, and brand royalty rates Dominque M. Hanssens, Lorenzo Michelozzi and Natalie Mizik; 7. On puffery Rebecca Tushnet; 8. Search Engine advertising, trademark bidding, and consumer intent Anindya Ghose and Avigail Kifer; Part III. Methodological Advances: 9. Choice experiments: reducing complexity and measuring behavior rather than perception Joel Steckel, Rebecca Kirk Fair, Kristina Shampanier and Anne Cai; 10. Use of conjoint analysis in litigation: challenges, best practices, and common mistakes Rene Befurt, Niall Macmenamin, Aylar Paur Mohammad and Joel Steckel; 11. Piece problems: component valuation in marketing and in patent and tort law Saul Levmore; 12. Marketing analysis in class certification Randolph E. Bucklin and Peter Simon; 13. Damages estimation in consumer deception class action: legal and methodological issues August T. Horvath; 14. Taking a second look at secondary meaning: a marketing perspective on circuit court factors Peter N. Golder, Michael J. Schreck and Aaron C. Yeater; 15. Social media evidence in commercial litigation Tom Wesson, Erich Schaeffer, Brenda Arnott-Wesson, Mark Pelofsky, David Heller and Bree Glavano; Part IV. How The Law Protects: 16. Law as persuasion Bert I. Huang; 17. The Coca-Cola bottle: a fragile vessel for building a brand Jacob E. Gersen and C. Scott Hemphill; 18. Poor consumer(s) law: the case of high-cost credit and payday loans Shmuel I. Becher, Yuval Feldman and Orly Lobel; 19. Eating law Stephen Ansolabehere and Jacob E. Gersen.