Activities
2012-2013 Rethinking Regulation activities include:
- Holding monthly seminars with students and faculty
- Convening two authors meetings for the “Recalibrating Risk: How Regulatory Institutes Respond to Significant Shifts in Risk Perceptions” project
- Hosting Sally Katzen as our Kenan Scholar in Residence
- Co-sponsoring with Duke Law “Regulating the Regulators: A Conversation with Former OIRA Administrators” public talk
Seminar events for 2012-2013 have included:
- Andreas Kraemer, Director of the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, “Germany’s Transition away from Nuclear Power.” (October seminar)
- Philip Schleifer, PhD student from the London School of Economics, “European Union Biofuels Governance.” (October seminar)
- Pate Skene, Duke Neurobiology, “Selection by Regulation: Effects of regulation on the cognitive structure of an industry.” (October seminar)
In 2011-2012, 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)