Parliamentary intelligence oversight committees are one of the classic forms of intelligence oversight, yet they are frequently regarded as inadequate. Many reasons have been proposed, such as a claim that legislators neglect oversight because of lack of sustained electoral pressure, or that...

The digital economy and digitization in general have long been touted as environmentally sustainable alternatives to physical commercial activity. The truth is more nuanced than that. Nevertheless, a broader framing of sustainable development, as outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals,...

Alcohol has been described as “America’s fiber” due to its immense history. With the alcohol industry booming, the need for beverage law attorneys will rise as well. And some law schools have made developments to facilitate this need. For instance, classes on “wine law” have been...

The proliferation of autonomous systems like unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles and AI-powered industrial and social robots can benefit society significantly, but these systems also present significant governance challenges in operational, legal, economic, social, and ethical...

Sector-specific macroprudential regulations can increase the riskiness of credit to other sectors. We compute alternative country-level measures of the riskiness of corporate credit allocation based on firm-level data and find that, consistently across those measures, an unexpected tightening of...

This chapter discusses the theoretical foundations of campaign finance regulation with a particular focus on the central concepts—liberty, equality, corruption, participation, and democracy—that have animated scholarly debates. The chapter begins by outlining key concepts from the legal...

Rate regulation can take many forms. Rates may be regulated through overt price controls, such as price ceilings or price floors; through less-overt rules governing the pace of price changes; or through quality mandates or restrictions. Some rate regulations can provide short-run benefits to...

The rise of autonomous driving may sharply reshape ride-sourcing markets by influencing drivers’ income and participation, customers’ choices, ride-sourcing platforms’ operations, and governments’ regulations. We introduce a model which characterizes a ride-sourcing market with a mixed...

The rapidly developing online food delivery business is a novel “ecosystem” involving digital platforms, restaurants, delivery-workers, and customers. Continuous expansion of its market size is accompanied by problems of economic fairness such as “wage distribution” and “revenue...

The European Union Deforestation-free Regulation imposes on importers and traders exacting requirements to ensure that relevant commodities and products are deforestation-free and comply with local human rights legislation before they are made available in the EU market. These requirements are...