PPR Hosts Conference on U.S. Regulation Crisis

Can regulators do anything right these days? That seems to be a question on a lot of people's mind lately. On the one hand, the recent financial crisis and Gulf Coast oil spill, not to mention mine and pipeline explosions and even contaminated eggs, raise questions about whether regulation adequately protects the public. On the other hand...
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PPR Hosts Conference on U.S. Regulation Crisis
PPR Hosts Conference on U.S. Regulation Crisis
PPR Hosts Conference on U.S. Regulation Crisis

Washington Workshop on Assessing Open Government

On his first day as President, Barack Obama announced his administration's "commitment to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government." Since then, the Obama Administration has implemented a major Open Government Initiative to increase transparency, participation, and collaboration across the federal government...
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Washington Workshop on Assessing Open Government
Washington Workshop on Assessing Open Government
Washington Workshop on Assessing Open Government

Announcing RegBlog

The Penn Program on Regulation has launched a new blog, RegBlog, devoted to tracking important issues and developments related to regulation and regulatory processes. RegBlog features new research, highlights proposals for regulatory policy and procedures changes, and serves as a vehicle for exchanging ideas about regulation. If you have suggestions for items or issues to include in RegBlog, please send us an email...
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Announcing RegBlog
Announcing RegBlog
Announcing RegBlog

PPR Panel on Outsourcing National Security

Two prominent scholars spoke at Penn Law recently about the federal government's increasing reliance on private firms to carry out national defense functions. Paul Verkuil, the Chair of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. (ACUS), and Professor Laura Dickinson of Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law both raised cautions about...
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PPR Panel on Outsourcing National Security
 PPR Panel on Outsourcing National Security
PPR Panel on Outsourcing National Security

Spring 2011 Recap: Risk Regulation Seminar Series

The Penn Program on Regulation's Spring 2011 Risk Regulation seminar series brought together leading scholars to focus on issues related to catastrophic risk, health care, and financial reform. In March, Professors William Wilson Bratton and Michael L. Wachter, co-directors of the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, presented their...
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Spring 2011 Recap: Risk Regulation Seminar Series
Spring 2011 Recap: Risk Regulation Seminar Series
Spring 2011 Recap: Risk Regulation Seminar Series

    Upcoming Events

    • Feb. 21 Speaker: Michael Greenstone
      4:30-6:00 pm | Huntsman Hall G55
    • Feb. 28 Careers in Administrative and Regulatory Law
      12:00-1:15 pm | Silverman 245A
      Jonathan J. Rusch (U.S. Department of Justice)
      Ken Hurwitz (Haynes and Boone)
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    Faculty in the News

    The Atlantic profiles Professor Richard Berk in its latest issue, discussing how his research improves criminal justice and regulatory decision-making (January/February 2012).

    Erwann Michel-Kerjan analyzes in the Wall Street Journal the serious risks that stem from a growing global income gap (January 2012).

    The New York Times quotes Professor Jill E. Fisch in a story about S.E.C. against the former head of Fannie Mae over treatment of risk from subprime mortgages (December 19, 2011).

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