14th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy: Regulatory Reform, Transparency, and the American Economy
February 2, 2018 at 8:00 AM ET
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Founders Hall Auditorium
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22201
Government regulation is intended to improve the efficiency of markets and protect people from harms they cannot identify or prevent on their own. But, for decades, advocates have debated whether the regulatory process and rules developed through it are too strict or too lax; whether they properly account for all the things society values; and even whether they make society better or worse off on balance. The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy’s Symposium on Regulatory Reform, Transparency, and the Economy will explore these and related questions as leading scholars and practitioners examine a number of recent regulatory proposals impacting a broad swath of the American economy – from banking and finance to energy and the environment, and from employment law to the internet economy. Speakers will consider and debate how well these proposals would perform their intended functions and how they might be improved.
The symposium will feature discussions of research papers prepared by experts working on the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project. The proceedings of the Conference will be published in a special symposium issue of George Mason’s Journal of Law, Economics & Policy.
To view the Symposium agenda, please click here.
Clinical Professor and Senior Scholar and Director of Copyright
George Mason University
Policy Director of the The Hamilton Project and Fellow in Economic Studies
Brookings Institution
Regulation Fellow, Penn Program on Regulation
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Associate Professor of Law and Director of Economic Education at the Global Antitrust Institute
Antonin Scalia Law School
Assistant Professor and Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Antonin Scalia Law School
J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law
George Washington University Law School
