Third-Year School of Law Student Wins Second Place in the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s 2024-2025 Harvey Saferstein Consumer Protection Committee Student Essay Contest
May 29, 2025
Third-year law student Laura Creech recently earned second place in the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s 2024–2025 Harvey Saferstein Consumer Protection Committee Student Essay Contest, a national competition open to second and third-year law students with an interest in consumer protection and data privacy law.
At the School of Law, Creech serves as Editor-in-Chief of the New Mexico Law Review and Secretary of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. During law school, she gained experience as a summer associate at Bardacke Allison Miller in Santa Fe. After graduation, she will clerk for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Creech earned her undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico and a master’s degree in Library & Information Science from Drexel University.
Her article, Buy Now, Pay Dearly Later?: Minimizing Consumer Harm Under New Mexico’s Small Loan Regulations, 55 N.M. L. Rev. 207 (2025), examines the under-disclosed risks of Buy Now, Pay Later loans and how they can negatively impact vulnerable consumers in New Mexico. It also outlines steps the state can take under current regulations to help prevent such harm. It can be read here.
