The Regulatory Review presents its top essays, series, and features from the past year.
Throughout the past year, regulators around the world have confronted pressing challenges and changes arising from policies of the second Trump Administration, the accelerating use of artificial intelligence, and increasing geo-political tensions—among many other consequential developments in 2025.
In the United States, the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda has ushered in a wave of changes that are reshaping the balance of powers among the three branches of government. Several U.S. Supreme Court decisions have also created new conditions for carrying out regulatory policy, redefining the scope of regulatory authority over areas that will affect individual and business rights, as well as altering the broader administrative law landscape.
As 2025 comes to an end, those of us at The Regulatory Review reflect on the integral role that regulation continues to play in shaping and addressing local, national, and global challenges.
In this year-end series, The Regulatory Review highlights recent regulatory research and developments and showcases the most widely read essays published in The Regulatory Review during the past twelve months.
We begin this year-in-review series by presenting a selection of the year’s major regulatory news stories, as chosen by the associate editors who produce our Week in Review feature every Friday. We then highlight the most widely viewed Saturday Seminars.
Next, we showcase our third year of interviews with leading regulatory thinkers and leaders, which we publish as part of our Sunday Spotlight feature.
We then spotlight the top essays submitted by leading commentators on regulatory law and policy. We also highlight the most-read essays authored by The Review’s own staff.
Finally, we conclude by we revisiting each of our other series of essays published within the past year.
At The Regulatory Review, we appreciate the privilege of publishing new, daily content on the most pressing regulatory issues of our time. More than ever, we view it as a responsibility to provide this public service.
We value the opportunity to help inform readers from around the world about important regulatory issues and to provide a neutral forum for engagement with a diverse set of viewpoints. As we publish new content nearly every day throughout the year, we strive to bring clarity to complex, consequential policy debates and improve accessibility to the fascinating and vital world of regulation.
As 2026 begins, we thank our readers and contributors for engaging with us throughout the year. We extend our very best wishes for the new year.
— The Editorial Board of The Regulatory Review
Top Regulatory News of 2025
December 26, 2025
In this special edition of our regular Friday feature—The Week in Review—we recap some of the top regulatory news stories from throughout the past year.
Top Saturday Seminars of 2025
December 27, 2025
We are pleased to highlight the top Saturday Seminars written by The Regulatory Review staff in 2025, including “The War on DEI,” by Mikaela Wells, Karson Taylor, and Cross Conrad, “Tackling America’s High Drug Prices,” by Atinuke Lardner, Grace Schuette, and Evelyn Woo, and “Is it Time to Reform a Landmark U.S. Environmental Law?” by Connor Henderson, Matthew Spero, and Gloria Lyu … and more.
Featured Sunday Spotlights of 2025
December 28, 2025
We are pleased to revisit each of our interviews published as part of our newest feature—the Sunday Spotlight—which focuses on timely conversations with scholars, practitioners, and commentators, including this year with Kevin Volpp, Mark V. Pauly President’s Distinguished Professor at Perelman School of Medicine and Health Care Management at The Wharton School, Chai Feldblum, former commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Mitch Zeller, former director of the Center for Tobacco Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration … and others.
Top Contributor Essays of 2025
December 29, 2025
We are pleased to feature the top essays written by our non-staff contributors in 2025, including Clifford Winston’s “DOGE Is a Wakeup Call for Economists and Attorneys,” Richard J. Pierce, Jr.’s “President Trump’s Deregulation Initiatives Are Exercises in Futility,” Lauren McFerran’s “Proposed OSHA Rule Is Dangerous for Workers and the Law” … and more.
Top Staff Essays of 2025
December 30, 2025
We are pleased to feature the top essays written by The Regulatory Review staff in 2025, including Sri Medicherla’s “The 1-In-10-Out Order’s Deregulatory Limitations,” Kyle Bradley’s “Revisiting EPA’s Forever Chemical Strategy,” Rachael Totz and Tasneem Mohammad’s “Insurance Coverage After the ‘One Big Beautiful’ Health Reform” … and more.
Featured Series of 2025
December 31, 2025
We are pleased to revisit all our special series published in The Regulatory Review during 2025, including “President Trump’s First 100 Days of Deregulation,” “Strengthening Agency Progresses Through Transparency and Engagement,” and “The Supreme Court’s 2024–2025 Regulatory Term.”
