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Regulatory Innovation And Permission To Fail: The Case Of Suptech, Hilary J. Allen
Regulatory Innovation And Permission To Fail: The Case Of Suptech, Hilary J. Allen
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The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision West Virginia v. EPA has cast a pall over the discretion of administrative agencies at a very inopportune time. The private sector is currently adopting new technologies at a rapid pace, and as regulated industries become more technologically complex, administrative agencies must innovate technological tools of their own in order to keep up. Agencies will increasingly struggle to do their jobs without that innovation, but the private sector is afforded something that is both critical to the innovation process, and often denied to administrative agencies: “permission to fail.” Without some grace for the inevitable …
It's Time To Remove The 'Mossified' Procedures For Ftc Rulemaking, Jeffrey Lubbers
It's Time To Remove The 'Mossified' Procedures For Ftc Rulemaking, Jeffrey Lubbers
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article, prepared for The George Washington Law Review’s Symposium “The FTC at 100,” addresses the FTC’s rulemaking process — specifically the quasi-adjudicative process mandated by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty — Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act of 1975 and the additional procedures added by the Federal Trade Commission Improvements Act of 1980 (collectively called the “Magnuson-Moss Procedures”). The article compares how long it took the FTC to complete or terminate the rulemakings it undertook under the Magnuson-Moss Procedures (including amendments to previously issued rules) with the amount of time it took the FTC to issue rules under the “regular” Administrative Procedure …
Positive Proposals For Treatment Of Online Intermediaries, Margot Kaminski
Positive Proposals For Treatment Of Online Intermediaries, Margot Kaminski
American University International Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ending Genetic Monopolies: How The Trips Agreement's Failure To Exclude Gene Patents Thwarts Innovation And Hurts Consumers Worldwide, Cydney A. Fowler
Ending Genetic Monopolies: How The Trips Agreement's Failure To Exclude Gene Patents Thwarts Innovation And Hurts Consumers Worldwide, Cydney A. Fowler
American University International Law Review
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Roundtable With Former Directors Of The Bureau Of Economics, Jonathan Baker
Roundtable With Former Directors Of The Bureau Of Economics, Jonathan Baker
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The roundtable commemorates the 100th anniversary of the FTC's predecessor agency, the Bureau of Corporations. It was sponsored by the FTC's Bureau of Economics (BE) and focused on BE history and contributions of BE and economic analysis to antitrust and consumer protection enforcement, and to research and economic knowledge and policy. BE was featured because the original functions of the Bureau of Corporations were to collect information, to conduct industry and policy research, to prepare reports at the request of the Congress and the President. The panelists for the roundtable consisted of former BE Directors and Acting Directors from the …
Mandatory Arbitration Of Consumer Disputes: A Proposal To Ease The Financial Burden On Low-Income Consumers , Julia A. Scarpino
Mandatory Arbitration Of Consumer Disputes: A Proposal To Ease The Financial Burden On Low-Income Consumers , Julia A. Scarpino
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Consumer Protection For Latinos: Overcoming Language Fraud And English-Only In The Marketplace , Steven W. Bender
Consumer Protection For Latinos: Overcoming Language Fraud And English-Only In The Marketplace , Steven W. Bender
American University Law Review
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