Better regulation as strategy and regulatory oversight as mechanism underpin regulatory policy in the USA and the European Union. Against a background of historical differences in design and operational features, we discuss the early choices…
by Maria Bianca Armiento After his election, President Joe Biden has adopted several measures impacting the concept of regulation. In particular, he signed the very famous Modernizing Regulatory Review Memorandum in which he “directs” the…
by Maria Bianca Armiento This recent book by M.A. Livermore and R.L. Revesz discusses how Trump administration deeply influenced environment and health agencies and their independence through political appointees and pressures from interest groups. The…
by Susan Dudley (Original source: Forbes) With less than 2 months left in his presidency, Donald Trump has few options for leaving his mark, even if he were willing to stop fulminating over the election…
by Sam Wice (Original source: Yale Journal on Regulation) Given the Paperwork Reduction Act’s (PRA) importance, it often does not get much attention. If the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the most important…
by Susan Dudley (Original source: The Regulatory Review) The decade since The Regulatory Review began publishing has seen dramatic shifts in regulation, with two administrations that arguably pursued the most regulatory and least regulatory agendas of any President…
by Maria Bianca Armiento This document contains the record of the December 2019 summit called “Modernizing the Administrative Procedure Act”. In the summit, scholars, practitioners and policy makers discussed the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act and…
by Maria Bianca Armiento On May 19, 2020, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Relief (n. 13924). The executive order is meant to deal with the disastrous…
by Maria Bianca Armiento The Trump Administration’s 2017 “1-in-2-out” policy keeps attracting criticism. In a post on the Regulatory Review, Amit Narang identifies the reasons why this “deregulatory” approach is proving to be a “categorical…
