Activities

 

2012-2013  Rethinking Regulation activities:

Fall 2012 Events

  • Student Grants:  Rethinking Regulation convened a student grant award seminar in April 2012.  Students presented research on the regulation of a WWII-era health benefits for military wives, the culture of pirating in Somalia, processes for designing regulatory schemes for fisheries, and food certification programs.  In Fall 2012, four more students were awarded grants from $1,000 to $2,000.
  • Recalibrating Risk:  A new book project kicked off in Fall 2012.  Sixteen authors from  6 different countries and 6 different disciplines will explore how crisis events affect overall perceptions of risk and how those perceptions influences regulation.  Authors will explore oil spills in the US and Europe;  nuclear events in Japan, the U.S. and Europe; and economic crises in the U.S and Europe.  The authors will look at overall themes across history, across geography and across type of crises.
  • Kenan Practitioner in residence:  Sally Katzen, former director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) under the Clinton administration consulted with the rethinking regulation group and other seminar members on individual projects and collaborations, and participating in an oral history project with History professor Ed Balleisen.  On Oct 24th, she participated in a panel presentation with John Graham, former OIRA administrator under the George W. Bush administration to provide an insider’s view of how regulation is handled in different presidential administrations.
  • Guest Speakers:  In Fall 2013,  the Rethinking Regulation group co-sponsored with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions a visit with Andreas Kraemer, Director of the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, who gave a public presentation, met with faculty and visited classes.
  • Ongoing Monthly Seminars:  Throughout the year, the Rethinking Regulation group held monthly seminars for faculty to present working papers, brainstorm project ideas and exchange feedback from each other.

 

Spring 2013 Events

In Spring 2013, we hostedseveral outside speakers, including:  Nathan Knuffman from the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management; Robin Smith, former Assistant Secretary for the Environment at the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources; Kevin Anderson, Senior Deputy Attorney General at the NC Department of Justice; Steve Usselman, Professor of History at Georgia Tech; and Christopher Hart, Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

This February 22nd and 23rd, we held a second “Recalibrating Risk” authors meeting.  During this gathering, an interdisciplinary group of international scholars gathered to discuss draft case studies for the planned volume of essays that examine the impact of crises on regulatory analysis and policy making.  This volume examines regulatory responses to three types of disasters: oil spills, nuclear accidents, and financial crises.

A series of preliminary discussions was held on “Adaptive Regulation,” including a Feb. 7 session with Sim Sitkin, of Fuqua, on organizational learning as well as a graduate student panel on regulatory strategies in emerging economies.  Rethinking Regulation also co-sponsoring a conference with Duke Law:  “New Scholarship on Happiness.” This interdisciplinary conference focused on the normative relevance of happiness surveys, and their utility for public policy.

 

In 2011-2012, faculty seminar events included:

  • Kim Krawiec, “‘Don’t Screw Joe the Plumber’: The Sausage Making of Financial Reform.” (September Seminar)
  • Head U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Inez Tenenbaum. (September Seminar)
  • Layna Mosely, “Taking Workers’ Rights on the Road?:  Multinational Firms and the Transmission of Labor Practices.” (November Seminar)
  • North Carolina Banking Commissioner, Joseph Smith. (December Seminar)
  • Saule Omarova, “License to Deal: Mandatory Approval of Complex Financial Products.”  ( January Seminar)
  • Eric Stein, Richard Newell and Ronnie Chatterji, “Rationalizing Regulation During Obama Presidency.”  (February Seminar)
  • Ben Waterhouse,  “The Unfinished Campaign for Regulatory Reform, 1977 – 1983” (February Seminar)
  • Jonas Monast and Sarah Pilunkus “Considering Shale Gas Extraction in North Carolina: Lessons from Other States.” (March Seminar)
  • Matthew Adler, “Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis” (March Public Event)
  • Ronnie Chatterji, “Do the Costs of Cooperation Drive the Gale of Creative Destruction? Commercialization Strategies in the Medical Device Industry” (April Seminar)
  • Alberto Alemanno, “New Frontiers of Regulation in Europe” (April Public Event)
  • Graduate Student Seminar (April Seminar)

 

In 2010-2011, seminar events included:

  • Eduardo Canedo on “The Radical Roots of American Deregulation” (October)
  • Panel Discussion on “Assessing the Outcome of Financial Reform” (November)
  • Dan Carpenter on “Reputation and Power” (December)
  • Nicholas Le Pan on “Lessons from the Financial Crisis:  Canada in Comparative Perspective” (February)
  • Shawn Donnelly on “Mostly Harmless: International Standard-Setting in Financial Markets after the Crisis” (March)
  • David Vogel on “The Politics of Precaution: Comparing Trends in Consumer and Environmental Risk Regulation in Europe and the United States” (April)
  • Panel Discussion on “Regulatory Innovation: The EPA and Climate Change” (April)