LONDON — Ripple, the $10 billion financial technology company best known for cryptocurrency XRP, is considering relocating its headquarters overseas…

San Francisco is famous for the miles of red tape and regulation that make it difficult to launch a business….

The Justice Department and several Republican-led states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, unleashing the might of the…

Over the last year, both populists and progressives have urged greater government control of the economy, including the imposition of…

Uber’s CEO is a political refugee. Dara Khosrowshahi, 51, immigrated to the U.S. as a boy after the Iranian revolution…

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee is expected to release a much-anticipated report into antitrust allegations against…

This post is part of the “Governing the Internet” blog series, which features a range of viewpoints on topics involving…

This post is part of the “Governing the Internet” blog series, which features a range of viewpoints on topics involving…

The fiduciary duties of corporate directors and officers require that they always act in a responsible manner to promote the…

This post is part of the “Governing the Internet” blog series, which features a range of viewpoints on topics involving…

This post is part of the “Governing the Internet” blog series, which features a range of viewpoints on topics involving…

Rejection of the idea that any bank is too big to fail (TBTF) is currently universal among U.S. policymakers. Yet…

Data portability has been a hot topic of late, from GDPR to CCPA to the FTC’s recent Data to Go…

The creators of the award-winning documentary, They Say It Can’t Be Done, in partnership with the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency…

Data portability has been a hot topic of late, from GDPR to CCPA to the FTC’s recent Data to Go…

In this episode, Jennifer Huddleston and Ashkhen Kazaryan break down the recent news related to Section 230 of the Communications…

The creators of the award-winning documentary, They Say It Can’t Be Done, in partnership with the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency…

On October 7, 2020, the Federalist Society’s Pennsylvania Student Chapter and the Regulatory Transparency Project co-sponsored an event on “Antitrust…

In this paper, the authors offer ten policy proposals for mitigating the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. These proposals include both positive reforms and warnings about pitfalls that are likely to make the situation worse.

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.