Videos

Shaz Rasul, Director of Community Programs; Abel Ochoa, Interim Director of the Collegiate Scholars Program; Dovetta McKee, Director of the Office of Special Programs-College Prep; students and school administrators describe the purpose and impact of t...

Highlights from the press conference of the Barack Obama Foundation’s announcement of Chicago as the future home for the Barack Obama Presidential Center. The Presidential Center will be located on Chicago’s South Side and will house the presidenti...

Full press conference of the Barack Obama Foundation’s announcement of Chicago as the future home for the Barack Obama Presidential Center. The Presidential Center will be located on Chicago’s South Side and will house the presidential library and ...

According to conventional wisdom, democracies can only form once an authoritarian regime collapses in a destabilizing crisis. Yet East and Southeast Asia have shown that leaders can democratize nations during times of strength without sacrificing polit...

Donald Elliott proposed a Chevron-style deference framework for administrative severability clauses. Under this framework, after a reviewing court has set aside a challenged regulatory provision, the court should defer to a promulgating agency’s opin...

Yair Listokin examined two alternative designs for hierarchical institutions—“bounded” and “unbounded”—and applied these insights to government appropriations, environmental law, and administrative law.

Traditionally the problem of regulation has been an information asymmetry: Firms know more about the risks they generate and the costs of mitigating them than do regulators, and they have incentives to make strategic use of their superior information t...

In this presentation, Jennifer Nou presented several examples of how federal agencies process information in the face of uncertain conditions. She then described the organizational structures that each agency used to help keep key decision makers infor...

Cost-benefit analysis requires the decision maker to estimate both the benefits and the costs of a regulation in monetary terms. However, in many cases, regulators refuse to report a monetized value for the benefits of a rule that they issue. In this p...