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Efficiency And Equity In Regulation, Caroline Cecot
Efficiency And Equity In Regulation, Caroline Cecot
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Biden Administration has signaled an interest in ensuring that regulations appropriately benefit vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Prior presidential administrations since at least the Reagan Administration have focused on ensuring that regulations are efficient, maximizing the net benefits to society as a whole, without considering who benefits or who loses from these policies. Critics of this process of regulatory review have celebrated President Biden’s initiative, hoping that distributional analysis and the pursuit of equity will displace traditional tools and interests such as cost-benefit analysis and the pursuit of efficiency. Meanwhile, supporters of the current process are concerned that pursuing equity …
Regulation Of Emerging Risks, Matthew T. Wansley
Regulation Of Emerging Risks, Matthew T. Wansley
Vanderbilt Law Review
Why has the EPA not regulated fracking? Why has the FDA not regulated e-cigarettes? Why has NHTSA not regulated autonomous vehicles? This Article argues that administrative agencies predictably fail to regulate emerging risks when the political environment for regulation is favorable. The cause is a combination of administrative law and interest group politics. Agencies must satisfy high initial informational thresholds to regulate, so they postpone rulemaking in the face of uncertainty about the effects of new technologies. But while regulators passively acquire more information, fledgling industries consolidate and become politically entrenched. By the time agencies can justify regulation, the newly …
Poland's New Foreign Investment Regulations: An Added Dimension To East-West Industrial Cooperation, Andrzej Burzynski, Julian C. Juergensmeyer
Poland's New Foreign Investment Regulations: An Added Dimension To East-West Industrial Cooperation, Andrzej Burzynski, Julian C. Juergensmeyer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A list of foreign investment opportunities currently available in Poland was recently published. The list was compiled from proposals submitted by the voivodship councils to the division of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, which was established to coordinate the activities of domestic Polish organizations and organizations of Poles living abroad. The list includes the construction of nine automobile repair shops, two enterprises for the manufacture of automobile accessories, organizations for the construction of single-family dwellings, furniture manufacturing enterprises, a short-order restaurant with the capacity of serving one thousand meals per day, three catering complexes to be located on international highways …