This Week in Intellectual Property, June 29th
News and Commentary The World Health Organization announced its partnership with COVAX participants to create an mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub alongside a consortium of South African institutions. This is part of WHO's general push for [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation. June 25th
News and Commentary In an opinion article for The Regulatory Review, Hannah Kass writes on the vast racial inequities in land ownership in the US. Today, white Americans own nearly all the nation’s farmland. Historically, discriminatory [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 24th
News and Commentary In the American Bar Association Journal, Stephanie Francis Ward covers the news that the New York State Bar Association wishes to create its own exam for the state to adopt in place of [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 23rd
News and Commentary In an article at Fortune, Shiva Rajgopal and Sri Ramamoorti argue that the SEC should oversee markets throughout the globe, rather than just the US. This would entail diplomatic missions in key regions [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 22nd
News and Commentary In Protocol, Janko Roettgers discusses the patent dispute between Sonos and Google. Last year, Sonos sued Google for patent infringement and Google in turn sued Sonos for the same. However, the initial patent [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 17th
News and Commentary An article from the law firm Ward and Smith discusses the appeal process that an occupational licensee may pursue when facing an investigation or disciplinary action by an licensing board. The author argues [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, June 18th
News and Commentary In an article at Vox, Jerusalem Demsas discusses whether the United States is experiencing a housing bubble. She first explores the question of what makes for a housing bubble. Next, she puts forth [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 16th
News and Commentary In a Pairagraph discussion, Oren Cass and Howard Marks debate whether the financial sector has become a drag on the real economy. Cass argues that financial firms add little to the real economy [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 16th
News and Commentary An article in Billboard discusses the approval of sections of the American Law Institute's Restatement on Copyright Law. While the text of the Restatement has yet to be released, anonymous sources discussed concerns related [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, June 11th
News and Commentary In a Slow Boring blog post, Matt Yglesias discusses the case for parking reform. He writes the piece in the context of a bill recently passed by the California State Assembly that would [...]