This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 19th
News and Commentary Leah Brooks, Genevieve Denoeux, and Jenny Schuetz write in a post for the Brookings Institution blog The Avenue about the Washington, D.C. region's need for more housing [...]
An Author’s Perspective on the National Emergency Library
This week, the Internet Archive shut down its National Emergency Library, created in March to expand on IA’s Open Library Project. This early closure is prompted by a lawsuit filed by four [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 18th
News and Commentary The Boston Herald reports that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, is seeking to create a police certification process in his state. The article says that Massachusetts [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 16th
News and Commentary Frank Partnoy writes in The Atlantic about his vision for what a COVID collapse of the U.S. financial system and points to the rise of collateralized loan [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 16th
News and Commentary Another one bites the dust. MIT announced that it will end its contract negotiations with the publisher Elsevier, as "Elsevier was not able to present a proposal [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 12th
News and Commentary Harvard economist Ed Glaeser and former New York City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett were interviewed on To The Point, a podcast from KCRW, an NPR affiliate in [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 11th
News and Commentary The Buckeye Institute submitted written testimony to a committee of the Ohio House of Representatives supporting the passage of House Bill 673 which would take steps to [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 10th
News and Commentary Zack Colman and Katy O’Donnell write at Politico about the threat that climate change poses to the American mortgage market. They find that the potential cost to [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 9th
News and Commentary In Inside Sources, I make the case that substantive patent reform should be part of the recovery agenda. This includes not only tightening patent eligibility and protecting [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 4th
News and Commentary A pandemic highlights the obvious risks associated with greater urban density, but Anthony DeDousis in City Commentary took a dive into the data, finding that poverty and [...]