*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. “We encourage you to think of it as offering something like a liberal arts education in the structural foundations of American capitalism.” (p. […]
*This is the third post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. In the preface to the 1994 edition of Economic Regulation: Cases and Materials (a precursor to Networks, Platforms, and Utilities (NPU) Law & […]
*This is the second post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. Networks, Platforms, and Utilities is the casebook I wish I’d written. It’s also the casebook I wish I’d had available for the past […]
*This is the first post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. One of my prized possessions is an unsolicited letter I received after publishing my very first academic article in August 1993. The article, […]
*This is the introduction to a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. We are grateful to the Yale Journal on Regulation for hosting this symposium on our new law school casebook, Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law […]
*This is the introduction to a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. Regulations on the books can do little good if they are seldom followed. Only if regulations induce compliance—and change the behavior of the businesses and other entities to which […]
*This is the first post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. With her new book Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era, Cynthia Giles offers a comprehensive and uniquely well-informed view of the state of compliance with […]
*This is the second post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. Environmental problems are human behavior problems. Thus, designing environmental solutions relies as much on our understanding of how best to change human behavior as it relies on our […]
*This is the third post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. No one disputes the central role that enforcement plays in any regulatory regime. In its latest Strategic Plan, the federal Environmental Protection Agency states that “A robust compliance […]
*This is the fourth post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. “Let’s decide to learn faster” (p. 277). Cynthia Giles closes the last chapter of Next Generation Compliance with this simple, powerful admonition for improving regulatory performance. Drawing from […]
*This is the fifth post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. Next Generation Compliance by Cynthia Giles is a must read for anyone interested in how environmental regulations actually work (or don’t work). Giles’ book is dedicated to identifying […]
*This is the sixth post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. Textbook environmental compliance goes a bit like this: After Congress passes a statute, EPA writes rules to set pollution standards, informed by a cost-benefit analysis. Cooperative federalism means […]
*This is the seventh and final post on a symposium on Cynthia Giles’ “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.” For other posts in the series, click here. Anyone involved in the debates about environmental policy knows how uncommon it is for environmental lawyers, economists, and practitioners to agree. So, I am thrilled that […]
*This is the ninth and final post in a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. My main response to this symposium is gratitude. I thank Yale Journal on Regulation and the Notice & Comment editors, and Bridget Dooling especially, for the opportunity to discuss The Reasoning State […]
*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. The Reasoning State is compelling because it manages to be both informative and enjoyable to read. The book explores why legislators delegate policy-making authority to agencies, subject to the requirement that agency officials adhere […]