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The Space Debris Race

The Space Debris Race

…the regulatory teeth needed to affect necessary change. Also, the committee itself is a small body without any authority to enforce its own guidelines. Customary international law does not offer…

Making Utility Assistance to Low-Income Households More Effective

Making Utility Assistance to Low-Income Households More Effective

…level of other households could lead to an excessive increase in general rates that violates equity and other regulatory goals. Rate relief to low-income households could also benefit all customers…

Understanding the Business of Corporate Board Diversity

Understanding the Business of Corporate Board Diversity

…which states that female representation on boards results in better business functioning, to rationalize increasing regulatory action for board diversity. In an article for Texas Law Review, Jeffrey Meli of…

The APA’s Antidiscrimination Failure

The APA’s Antidiscrimination Failure

…environmental impacts of a regulation. And the Regulatory Flexibility Act ensures that agencies consider and minimize a regulation’s effect on small businesses. A new statute could require such statements and…

Regulating the Sale and Use of Hidden Cameras

Regulating the Sale and Use of Hidden Cameras

regulatory approaches to address covert cameras: criminalizing misuse and banning the sale of covert cameras. China adopts the latter approach. Article 283 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic…

Toxic Floods Create Pressing Regulatory Needs

Toxic Floods Create Pressing Regulatory Needs

…reportedly caused toxic spills from flood-ravaged oil and chemical refineries and exposed people to hazardous materials. These kinds of toxic spills caused by flooding have escaped adequate regulatory controls, argues…

Returning Morality to Small Dollar Lending

Returning Morality to Small Dollar Lending

…away from a focus on usury laws—or laws capping interest rates on loans—to a consumer protection framework. The current regulatory regime, Baradaran claims, imposes challenges on modern regulators who oppose…

Can Ethical Certification Prevent Food Fraud?

Can Ethical Certification Prevent Food Fraud?

…of industries and their specific products. These organizations ensure that food manufacturers meet various standards including fair pricing and safe working conditions. Ethical certification organizations have a unique transnational regulatory

Regulatory Comments and the Major Questions Doctrine

Regulatory Comments and the Major Questions Doctrine

…doctrine in service of its deregulatory assault on the administrative state. Moreover, the Trump Administration opportunistically relied on arbitrary and irrational metrics—including the number of public comments a rule received—to…

Addressing the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

Addressing the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

…University School of Law argue that federal efforts to address PFAS do not go far enough, leaving states to fill in regulatory gaps. Diaz and Stewart suggest that such a…

Increasing Early, Transparent Consideration of Regulatory Alternatives

Increasing Early, Transparent Consideration of Regulatory Alternatives

…majority of previous academic work on the regulatory process has found that agencies often do not seriously consider alternative regulatory policies. As such, there is seldom much opportunity for the…

Stomping Out the Spotted Lanternfly

Stomping Out the Spotted Lanternfly

…public to stop the infestation, the lanternfly has rapidly spread into 11 states, posing a regulatory challenge. The spotted lanternfly is native to China and classified as an invasive species…