Yesterday, the Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing with the CEOs of…

“Let’s Zoom!” Imagine a work colleague’s awkward response if you enthusiastically proposed this last December. Just five months ago, the video…

If the COVID-19 crisis has taught us one thing, it is the importance of American dynamism, the idea that individuals,…

Government bureaucracies tend to grow and become more bloated and ineffective over time. Sometimes this seems like an inexorable law…

On July 27, CEOs from four of the largest U.S. tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — will…

President Trump said Wednesday that his administration has completed its update to the National Environmental Policy Act, including changes that…

American tech companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are some of the most successful companies in the world. Recently,…

A sustained effort by activist investors to align corporate policy and investing with a progressive policy agenda could be shortchanging…

Prof. Richard Epstein’s The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law examines how the growth of the administrative state as a result…

This expert panel examines recent calls for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to engage in substantive rulemaking under the competition…

How does the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calculate consumer injury and civil penalties in consumer protection matters? This live podcast…

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government is waiving affirmative action requirements in federal construction projects. Wen…

In this paper, the authors argue that piracy poses a significant threat to the rapidly-growing legitimate online streaming industry. They contend that lawmakers must make piracy through online streaming a felony, rather than misdemeanor, in order to more effectively deter bad actors.

In this paper, James Capretta argues that the current system for regulating the physician workforce is not flexible enough to ensure that enough doctors make it into the field to serve all patients. Mr. Capretta offers a number of reforms that, he argues, would streamline the educational and licensing processes for new and immigrating doctors.

In this paper, Christina Sandefur argues that well-intentioned laws designed to limit wasteful spending, known as certificate-of-need laws, no serve mostly to allow market incumbents in healthcare to keep new entrants out of the market. This, she argues, is harmful to the public and stands in violation of state anti-monopoly laws.

In this paper, the authors lay out a conception of the proper place of ‘public interest’ in patent law, and what they see as current, detrimental uses of that principle. Properly applied, the notion serves the public by promoting innovation, but improperly applied, they argue, public interest can serve to stifle progress.

In this paper, the authors argue that the uncertainty in local land-use rules often makes new building prohibitively risky, costly, and complex. The ambiguity of these rules and the lack of substantial legal recourse for those seeking to build, they suggest, hampers entrepreneurship and healthy economic development and increases inequality. Finally, the authors suggest a set of reforms that might improve the current state of affairs.

This paper lays out a set of constitutional concerns pertaining to certain new state and local regulations on data privacy. Do these new rules impinge on free speech, violate the dormant commerce clause, or are they preempted by other federal laws?