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Moving Forward With Regulatory Lookback, Cary Coglianese
Moving Forward With Regulatory Lookback, Cary Coglianese
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President Obama has rightly called on government agencies to establish ongoing routines for reviewing existing regulations to determine if they need modification or repeal. Over the last two years, the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has overseen a signature regulatory “lookback” initiative that has prompted dozens of federal agencies to review hundreds of regulations. This regulatory initiative represents a good first step toward increasing the retrospective review of regulation, but by itself will do little to build a lasting culture of serious regulatory evaluation. After all, past administrations have made similar review efforts, but these ad …
Theory And Practice Of Competition Advocacy At The Ftc, James C. Cooper, Paul A. Pautler, Todd J. Zywicki
Theory And Practice Of Competition Advocacy At The Ftc, James C. Cooper, Paul A. Pautler, Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University School of Law Working Papers Series
This article was prepared as part of a recent symposium celebrating the Ninetieth Anniversary of the founding of the Federal Trade Commission. In addition, fall 2004 marks the Thirtieth Anniversary of a pivotal moment in the establishment of the modern advocacy program at the FTC, Chairman Lewis Engman’s speech on the economic burden that inefficient transportation regulation policies were imposing on the American economy. Although the FTC has been involved in advocacy activities since its founding, Engman’s speech symbolized a new aggressiveness on the part of the FTC in using its expertise to work with other governmental actors at all …
Bounded Evaluation: Cognition, Incoherence, And Regulatory Policy, Cary Coglianese
Bounded Evaluation: Cognition, Incoherence, And Regulatory Policy, Cary Coglianese
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Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade, and Ilana Ritov have recently advanced a cognitive explanation for incoherence in legal decisionmaking, showing how decision makers tend to make micro-level judgments that make little sense when viewed from a broader perspective. Among other things, they claimed to have discovered striking incoherence in regulatory policy evidenced by varied penalty levels across different statutes, with less serious violations sometimes backed up with higher penalties than more serious violations. This paper comments on Sunstein et al.'s treatment of incoherence in regulatory policy, arguing that the same cognitive limitations that Sunstein et al. argue lead to …
An Administrative Law Perspective On Consensual Decisionmaking, Andrew Popper
An Administrative Law Perspective On Consensual Decisionmaking, Andrew Popper
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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The Antitrust System: An Impediment To The Development Of Negotiation Models, Andrew Popper
The Antitrust System: An Impediment To The Development Of Negotiation Models, Andrew Popper
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Gordon V. New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (Nyse), Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Gordon V. New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (Nyse), Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
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United States V. National Association Of Securities Dealers, Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
United States V. National Association Of Securities Dealers, Inc., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
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