The Regulatory Review

11/26/2025

If a credible fear interview produces enough evidence to warrant asylum, the interviewing officer should be able to grant it immediately, rather than merely pass the case on for further adjudication, Michael Kagan of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas argues in a recent article. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/27/lonergan-clearing-the-asylum-backlog/

11/25/2025

In a recent article, Tom C.W. Lin of Temple University's Beasley School of Law examines the danger AI poses to financial markets and offers regulatory solutions. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/25/smith-ai-and-the-future-of-market-manipulation/

11/22/2025

In this week’s Saturday Seminar, experts assess New York City’s embattled congestion pricing plan—probing whether pricing traffic in Manhattan can fairly cut gridlock and emissions, or instead shift costs onto commuters and small businesses while raising serious legal and equity concerns. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/22/seminar-tolls-tradeoffs-and-interstate-commerce/

11/20/2025

Employers that claim their workers are not covered by the NLRA or that the Board’s structure is unconstitutional should not be allowed to insist on NLRA preemption, Gali Racabi of Cornell Law School argues. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/20/basila-alternative-labor-regulation/

11/19/2025

In a recent article, Shelley Welton of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Conor Harrison of the University of South Carolina argue that derisking under the Inflation Reduction Act risks repeating the failed nuclear “renaissance” by loading costly, delay-prone energy projects onto local ratepayers without ensuring real decarbonization. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/19/bradley-climate-derisking-as-a-decarbonization-strategy/

11/15/2025

In this week’s Saturday Seminar, experts examine how shareholder say-on-pay and proxy power shape CEO compensation, deals, and firm performance—and debate reforms to boost accountability without harming workers. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/15/seminar-shareholder-influence-on-executive-compensation/

11/13/2025

The development of international law to address stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) offers the best chance to avoid the dangers of unilateral action in a fast-warming world, some scholars argue. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/13/henderson-it-only-takes-one/

11/12/2025

In a recent article, Adam J. Levitin of Georgetown University Law Center urges a consumer-style federal regime—standardized cost disclosures, licensing, and bans on predatory terms—to protect small businesses from abusive lending. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/12/heavner-how-to-fix-small-business-lending/

11/10/2025

"As more policymakers seek to restrict, limit, or otherwise regulate AI use at the state and federal level, the question of whether a regulation of AI-generated content constitutes a time, place, or manner restriction or instead a viewpoint or subject-matter restriction is paramount," Jeremy Straub of North Dakota State University argues. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/10/straub-are-government-restrictions-on-ai-constitutional/

11/08/2025

In this week’s Saturday Seminar, scholars probe how private-equity hospital ownership reshapes care—raising patient-safety, access, and cost concerns—and evaluate emerging state and federal reforms to curb financial extraction and strengthen oversight. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/08/seminar-when-wall-street-owns-the-hospital/

11/06/2025

Registration is open for the 2025 OECD High-level Symposium: Simplifying for Success in Paris on November 17 and 18.

FROM FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER: IN-PERSON REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED. ONLINE REGISTRATIONS REMAIN OPEN UNTIL THE DAY OF THE EVENT. PLEASE CONTACT [email protected] IF YOU WISH TO REQUEST IN-PERSON REGISTRATION.

11/06/2025

The sheer volume of sports-betting advertisements contributes to rising rates of problem gambling and warrants greater regulation, even when the ads themselves are not misleading, Mark Conrad of Fordham University argues in a recent article. https://www.theregreview.org/2025/11/06/schuette-the-challenges-of-regulating-sports-betting-advertisements/