People
LEADERSHIP
All Rethinking Regulation leaders also take part in the seminar.
Ed Balleisen is Project Director of Rethinking Regulation. He is an Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Ed specializes in the evolving “culture of American capitalism” -– the institutions, values, and practices that both structured and limited commercial activity. He is the co-editor of Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and author of Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America and Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia/HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992-2001. His work has been published in numerous journals, including Business History Review, Australian Journal of Legal History, and Reviews in American History.
Lori Bennear is a member of Rethinking Regulation Faculty Advisory Group and Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Her current research projects focus on evaluating the effectiveness of non-traditional regulatory regimes, evaluating strategic behavioral responses to these regimes, assessing their distributional impacts, and evaluating the role of program evaluation in environmental policy.
Tim Büthe is a member of Rethinking Regulation Faculty Advisory Group. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for European Studies at Duke University. His current research projects focus on global private politics, primarily on the causes and consequences of delegating governance — and especially regulatory authority — to non-state and increasingly also non-governmental actors.
Jonathan B. Wiener is a member of Rethinking Regulation Faculty Advisory Group. He is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, at Duke University. He has written widely on U.S., European, and international environmental law and risk regulation. Wiener most recently co-edited the 2010 book, The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe.
SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS
Matthew Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law at the Duke Law School. His substantive areas of expertise include administrative law and constitutional law. Prior to joining the Duke Law faculty in July 2012 he was the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Adler’s scholarship focuses on three areas: policy analysis, risk regulation, and constitutional theory. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard, 2006; co-authored with Eric Posner); and Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, which systematically discusses how to integrate considerations of fair distribution into policy analysis (Oxford 2012).
Pete Andrews is a Professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching are on environmental policy in the United States and worldwide, including a book on the history of U. S. environmental policy and research grants on environmental policy innovations in the United States, the Czech Republic, and Thailand. He also directed the National Database on Environmental Management Systems, a major research initiative developed with support from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency in cooperation with the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Management Systems (MSWG). His current work is principally on state policy innovations for addressing energy efficiency, renewable energy, and global climate change.
Dan Ariely is the James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at the Fuqua School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. As a behavioral economist, he studies how people actually act in the marketplace, as opposed to how they should or would perform if they were completely rational. His work has been published in leading psychology, economics, and business journals, and he is the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions.
Lawrence Baxter is a Visiting Professor of the Law at Duke Law School. A former lawyer and corporate executive at Wachovia Bank, his teaching and research interests are in United States federal and state administrative law; domestic and global banking and regulation; comparative law; jurisprudence; criminal law (United States and Australia); legal writing; constitutional law (non-U.S.) and professional training and responsibility. He is currently focused on the evolving regulatory environment for financial services and beyond.
Stuart Benjamin is a Douglas B. Maggs Chair in Law and Associate Dean for Research at Duke Law School. He specializes in telecommunications law, the First Amendment, and administrative law.
Thomas Birkland is the Associate Dean for Research, Engagement, Extension, and Economic Development in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University. His research interests have center on the politics of natural hazards and industrial accidents.
Ronnie Chatterji is an Associate Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. His research and teaching investigate entrepreneurship, innovation, and the expanding social mission of business. He is especially interested in the fluid boundaries between government and business, and how public policies interact with the activities of responsible companies, social entrepreneurs, and creative customers
James Cox is the Brainerd Currie Professor of Law at Duke University. He has published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance as well as having testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading, class actions, and market reform issues.
John de Figueiredo is the Edward and Ellen Marie Schwarzman Professor of Law
Professor of Strategy and Economics at Duke Law School and Professor of Strategy and Economics at the Fuqua School of Business. He studies competitive strategy, political and legal strategy, law and economics, and the management of innovation. His research in competitive strategy focuses on using dynamic models to explain how large and small firms gain competitive advantage through innovation, organization, and market position in segmented markets. His research in law and economics and “non-market” strategy explores how firms use political influence, regulatory lobbying, and strategic litigation to enhance competitive performance.
Deborah Gallagher is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Resource and Environmental Policy at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Executive Director of the Duke Environmental Leadership Program. Her research lies at the intersection of business and the environment, sustainable business, environmental management systems, public/private sector partnerships, and environmental policy implementation.
Gary Gereffi is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness at Duke University. His major ongoing research projects are: 1) industrial upgrading, global production networks, and decent work in East Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe; (2) analyzing the competitiveness of North Carolina industries in the global economy, utilizing a value chain perspective; (3) engineering outsourcing and workforce development in the United States, China, and India; (4) a global value chain perspective on food safety and quality standards; and (5) collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and other co-sponsors on clean (low-carbon) technologies and U.S. jobs.
Kieran Healy is Associate Professor in Sociology and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. His research interests are in economic sociology, the sociology of culture, the sociology of organizations, and social theory. He is the author of Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. His current focus is on the moral order of market society, the effect of quantification on the emergence and stabilization of social categories, and the link between these two topics.
Melissa Jacoby is the George R. Ward Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. Her scholarship takes interdisciplinary approaches to bankruptcy, debtor-creditor and commercial law.
Kim Krawiec is an expert on corporate law who teaches courses on securities, corporate, and derivatives law. Her research interests span a variety of fields, including the empirical analysis of contract disputes; the choice of organizational form by professional service firms, including law firms; forbidden or taboo markets; corporate compliance systems; insider trading; derivatives hedging practices; and “rogue” trading. Krawiec’s recent scholarship addresses organizational misconduct and trade within forbidden or contested markets.
Fritz Mayer is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and Director, Program on Global Policy and Governance at the Sanford School of Public Policy. His research focuses on globalization and its effects, with particular emphasis on the labor and environmental effects of economic integration.
Jonas Monast is the Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. His work focuses on the interaction of energy policies at various levels of government, regulatory options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the intersection of financial markets and climate policy. He directed Duke University’s Climate Change Policy Partnership from 2007-2010 and coordinated the Nicholas Institute’s Carbon Market Initiative.
Layna Mosley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research projects include the effects of international capital mobility on government policy choices, the role of private sector actors in global financial regulation, and the relationship between labor rights and foreign direct investment.
Richard Newall is the Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Director of the Duke University Energy Initiative at the Nicholas School of the Environment. His experience lies in the economics of energy and environmental markets, policies, and technologies; climate change; energy efficiency; and market-based environmental policy.
Wayne Norman is the Mike and Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics in the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. He specializes in business ethics and political philosophy and is the author of Negotiating Nationalism: Nation-building, Federalism, and Secession in the Multinational State and co-editor or author of four other books.
Lydia Olander is the Director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and a Research Scientist at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She is currently developing the Nicholas Institute and Duke’s expanding initiative on ecosystem services; coordinating Duke’s Ecosystem Services Working Group; coordinating the development of a National Ecosystem Services Partnership; helping to coordinate the Institute’s programs on greenhouse gas offsets; and directing the Technical Working Group on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases.
Saule Omarova is on the faculty at the UNC School of Law and specializes in financial regulatory policy. She served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as the Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy.
Arti Rai is the Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at the Duke Law School. She is an internationally recognized expert in intellectual property (IP) law, administrative law, and health policy.
Barak Richman is a Professor of Law at the Duke Law School. His research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy. He teaches contracts, antitrust, and health law, and he has guest taught classes at The Fuqua School of Business and the Sanford School of Public Policy.
David Schaad is Associate Professor of the Practice and Associate Chair in the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering. His current research focuses on sustainable engineering, community development, water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater retention/detention and treatment design, hazardous waste remediation, urban hydrology, constructed wetland and stream restoration design, ecological stabilization, sustainable engineering in land development, water resources, water and wastewater treatment.
Kevin Schulman is the Faculty Director for the Health Sector Management Program. He has a joint faculty appointment with The Fuqua School of Business and the Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Health Management and holds appointments in the Center for Clinical Health Policy and the Durham Veterans Administration Health Services Research Unit. His health services research has centered upon three broad themes: economic evaluation of clinical trials; research concerning access to care and the impact of managed care on clinical practice; and clinical decision-making, especially the assessment of decision-making for patients with life-threatening diseases.
Sim Sitkin is a Professor of Management at the Duke Fuqua School of Business, the Founding Faculty Director of the Center on Leadership and Ethics, and Director of the Center for Organizational Research. His research focuses on leadership and control systems and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. His forthcoming Cambridge University Press book, Control in Organizations: New Directions in Theory and Research, is co-edited with Laura Cardinal and Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema.
Ben Waterhouse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on politics and political culture in the United States during the mid-to-late 20th century. His current book project explores the role that large, national business associations—and their lobbyists—played in shaping economic policy and the conservative political movement during the 1970s and 1980s.
Erika Weinthal specializes in global environmental politics and natural resource policies with a particular emphasis on water and energy. The main focus of her research is on the origins and effects of environmental institutions. Her previous research examined the impact of multilateral and bilateral development organizations on water resource management and institution building in the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia. Her research on water politics in conflict regions (e.g. the Gaza Strip in the Middle East) focuses on how the environment might be harnessed for peace building.