Event Tag: regulatory reform

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Program Description: By the late 1970’s, the Federal Trade Commission had greatly expanded in size and scope of its powers. The Commission’s size, lack of focus, and overreach of its regulatory mandate drew the ire of parents, business leaders, and members of Congress. No less than The Washington Post opined that the FTC was a “National Nanny.” In … Continue reading “Lessons Since the Reagan Revolution at the FTC: A 30-Year Perspective on Competition and Consumer Policies”

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Program Description: The Manne Faculty Forum is an annual Roundtable, held in September, where junior tenure-track faculty at George Mason University School of Law present draft papers for comment, discussion, and critique by senior faculty at the law school. Each author also invites one other discussant of their choice to participate. Following the Forum, the authors … Continue reading “Third Annual Manne Faculty Forum”

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Program Description:  In a series of influential and provocative articles, Professor Larry Ribstein examined the forces behind the recent upheaval in the market for legal services.  These forces included increased global competition, changes in the demand for legal services resulting from the expanded role of the in-house counsel, and the expanded use of technology.  His … Continue reading “Second Annual Henry G. Manne Law & Economics Conference, “Unlocking the Law: Building on the Work of Larry Ribstein””

Program Description: The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law held a Research Roundtable on Law’s Information Revolution as part of the LEC’s Project on Legal Services Reform. Seeking to promote work on legal innovation, legal education, law firms, and legal regulation, the following papers, which examinine the effect of advances in … Continue reading “LEC Research Roundtable on Law’s Information Revolution”

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Program Description: The LEC Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion featured panels on specialized topics, such as regulatory cost-benefit analysis, the judicial review of regulatory science, and the consequences of significant delegated discretion to administrative agencies. Speakers included the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals for the … Continue reading “Public Policy Conference on Administration Unbound? Delegation, Deference, and Discretion”

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Fourth Annual Henry G. Manne Law & Economics Conference Program Description: The one-day symposium featured a comprehensive analysis of the history and economics of consumer credit and its regulation in America, with commentary from leading economists, law professors, and policy-makers. Panels focused on policy and contemporary debates as well as economic and legal perspectives. Research papers … Continue reading “Eleventh Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy: A Symposium on Consumer Credit and the American Economy”

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Program Description: Consumers have an incredible array of technologies and services available to them online. As these technologies have progressed, there are growing questions as to what policies are best suited to protect consumers and encourage industry innovation. Topics included the role of the state attorneys general in enforcing privacy laws and a discussion of the … Continue reading “Third Annual LEC Public Policy Conference on Privacy and Data Security”

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Program Description: Administrative law reflects the hope that modern societies can be governed not only liberally and democratically but also rationally, sensibly, and with tolerable efficiency. On both sides of the Atlantic, that once-confident conviction now meets with considerable skepticism, in somewhat different ways and for different reasons. At the Transatlantic Law Forum’s Eighth Annual … Continue reading “Eighth Annual Transatlantic Law Forum”

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Regulatory Reform, Transparency, and the American Economy 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 … Continue reading “14th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy”