This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 10th
News and Commentary In The Gazette, Colorado woman and former prisoner at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility discusses her successful transition from prison life to contributing member of society. She discusses the numerous hurdles she faced to [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 9th
News and Commentary The Cicero Institute’s Judge Glock appears on Macro Musings to chat with David Beckworth about the origins and evolution of the US mortgage market, which Glock covers in his new book The Dead [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 8th
News and Commentary I am interviewed in Bloomberg Law discussing the newest text of the TRIPS waiver on COVID-related intellectual property. In my view, the narrowing of the scope of the waiver shows that the proposal [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, June 4th
News and Commentary Writing for Greater Greater Washington, Wyatt Gordon discusses a new "anti-NIMBY" law soon to go into effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The law makes it far more difficult for localities to deny [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 3rd
News and Commentary Writing in opposition of universal licensing recognition is Marta Zaniewski. She makes the basic point that universal licensing recognition may lead to problems (citing the Texas power failures, which had absolutely nothing to [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 2nd
News and Commentary A blog post from Lauren Anderson and Francisco Covas discuss the implications of suggestions made by several regulators and academics to require regulation of bank capital requirements to incorporate the climate risks associated [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 1st
News and Commentary Following the passage of the European Union's Copyright Directive in 2019, it goes to the EU member states to implement its provisions, the most controversial of which would functionally require "upload filters" under [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, May 28th
News and Commentary For Planetizen, Todd Litman writes about the debate as it relates to the housing supply and how to evaluate evidence presented by those coming from different perspectives on the debate. He contrasts three [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, May 27th
News and Commentary In Reason Eric Boehm discusses the Restoring Board Immunity Act, which would reshape the antitrust liability shields occupational licensing boards face provided state governments increase scrutiny or change laws to increase the burden licensing boards [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, May 26th
News and Commentary Jeff Hauser, in the Revolving Door Newsletter, discusses personnel changes related to financial regulation, including the removal of Comptroller Blake Paulson and Chief Operating Officer Robin Minor. This is part of an important [...]