This Week in Occupational Licensing, May 30th
News and Commentary Elise Amez-Droz and Andrea O'Sullivan outline some of the best supply side reforms to increase access and bring down healthcare costs. Among their proposed reforms are increased [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, May 29th
News and Commentary In his Wall Street Journal op-ed (posted here on the Brookings website), William Gale makes a damning case against the mortgage interest deduction. Similar countries without an MID have [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 28th
Rent Check A forthcoming Fordham Law Review paper makes the case for comprehensive right to repair legislation in the US, arguing (among other points) that more R2R will make innovators [...]
DIY Innovation Through Right to Repair
In a forthcoming article in Fordham Law Review, Leah Chan Grinvald and Ofer Tur-Sinai make the case for comprehensive right-to-repair (R2R) legislation across the country: In recent years, there has [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, May 24th
News and Commentary A new medium post from Joe DiStefano of Urban Footprint goes through the potential effects of the recently postponed SB 50. The benefits of the jobs-rich area provisions, [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, May 23rd
News and Commentary A federal judge has found Savannah, Georgia's law against unlicensed tour guides to be a violation of the First Amendment. The suit was brought by the Institute [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, May 22nd
News and Commentary Despite levying fines of over $20 billion in the past five years, the SEC has only collected about 55% of the amount owed. This discrepancy is largely [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 21st
Rent Check A lawsuit between the creator of the Pepe the frog meme and the far-right website infowars for use of the frog's likeness creates some open questions on the [...]
Alt Right vs Copyright
Pepe the Frog has gone from a relatively obscure cartoon character to an icon of the alt right. The use of Pepe’s likeness in a poster for sale on the [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, May 16th
News and Commentary SB 50 has been postponed until January 2020. The bill was postponed and will likely undergo revisions, after fierce opposition from neighborhood supervisors and other local groups. [...]