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The Regulatory Transparency Project (RTP) seeks to identify and bring attention to the excesses of the administrative state in this country. All too often, over-regulation of the economy stifles innovation, productivity, opportunity and ultimately, the American Dream. We want people to look at regulations which are burdensome and extremely inefficient and not simply submit to them as the cost of doing business but, rather, look for real and concrete ways to change them for the better. The RT ...
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Deep Dive 230 - Who Is Regulating the Regulators?
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In the Executive Office of the President is a small office that most people outside the Beltway have never heard of. The Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) reviews agencies' draft regulations, public information requests, surveys, etc. Across administrations - both Republican and Democratic - it has served as a check on excessive adm…
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RM Terra: Como se desenvolve um movimento de cidadãos em prol da natureza?
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O que começou como um pequeno movimento de cidadãos indignados com os incêndios de 2017 tornou-se numa associação que já contribuiu para a plantação de 20 mil árvores em Portugal. Pedro Marques, fundador do projeto RMTerra, fala-nos sobre a importância de conectar a população à natureza.Av Biosfera
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Deep Dive 229 – Overcoming the Challenges to Clean Infrastructure
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On November 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. On May 11, 2022, the White House released the Permitting Action Plan, to "accelerate and deliver infrastructure projects on time, on task, and on budget." The infrastructure bill represents a major public investment in infrastructure development. And yet signif…
Milhares de pessoas rumam às praias fluviais do Douro no verão, mas apenas duas estão classificadas seguras para banhos. O Movimento Rio Douro está a sensibilizar a população para os perigos da água contaminada e a importância de investir na melhoria da qualidade do rio e dos seus afluentes.Av Biosfera
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Explainer 37 – The Defense Production Act and the APA
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In this episode, J. Kennerly Davis, Jr., former Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, discusses the historical origin of the Defense Production Act, the powers the Act gives to the president, and recent presidents' invocation of the Act in pursuit of public policy objectives. Featuring: - J. Kennerly Davis, Jr., Former Senior At…
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Salvar os Oceanos, Proteger o Futuro
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As associações ambientalistas do mar querem esforços reais para a conservação e legislação que regule a sobrepesca. Conversamos com Flávia Silva, da Fundação Oceano Azul, na Segunda Conferência dos Oceanos, em Lisboa.Av Biosfera
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Deep Dive 228 – Does the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Have Authority To Regulate the Climate?
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The Biden administration has pledged to meet what it calls "the accelerating threat of climate change" with a wide-ranging campaign to discourage the production and use of fossil fuels in order to control the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases said to be the principal cause of global warming. The White House has directed regulato…
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Descobrir a terra a partir de Marte
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Vamos ter mais tempestades de poeira? Como está a mudar a circulação atmosférica? As zonas desertas do planeta estão a expandir? O astrónomo Pedro Mota Machado esclarece estas e outras questões, com novas descobertas de Marte em pano de fundo.Av Biosfera
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Deep Dive 227 – Crypto Wars: Balancing Privacy versus National Security
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Senior officials in the Administration have expressed concern about cryptocurrencies being used for criminal activity and undermining the dollar as the global reserve currency. These concerns have been heightened with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, evasion of sanctions including North Korean sanctions, cyberattacks, and ransomware. Others contend…
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Deep Dive 226 – Due Process Protections in Agency Enforcement Actions
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In February 2019, then General Counsel of the Department of Transportation (DOT), Steven Bradbury, issued a memo later dubbed the "Bradbury Memo" that addressed concerns about civil enforcement abuse at the agency. Parts of the memo were subsequently made into binding DOT rules. DOT asserted that these rules were designed to protect the due process…
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Deep Dive 225 – State Constitutions and Individual Liberty: State or Federal Government as Primary Custodian of Individual Rights?
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On June 23, 2022, David A. Carrillo, Christina Sandefur, Robert F. Williams and moderator Braden Boucek joined us to debate the different purposes and rights guarantees within state constitutions and the federal constitution. What are the federalism implications of an increased focus on state constitutional rights, if that's really the trend? What …
A doença Citrus Greening (HLB) conduz ao declínio dos citrinos e, apesar da doença ainda não ter sido detectada em Portugal, o seu vetor, a Psila-Africana-dos-Citrinos, está disseminado pela costa atlântica. Ana Aguiar, Investigadora da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, explica que a solução para combater a praga tem sido o recurso à …
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Deep Dive 224 – Regulating the New Crypto Ecosystem: Necessary Regulation or Crippling Future Innovation?
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Cryptocurrency. Decentralized finance. Nonfungible tokens. Once only experts on the cutting edge of financial services were familiar with these terms. Now, with the emergence of digital assets within the global financial system, crypto, DeFi, and NFTs are becoming part of the mainstream financial services lexicon. The rapidly emerging crypto ecosys…
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Deep Dive 223 – Regulating the New Crypto Ecosystem: SEC Commissioner Hon. Hester M. Peirce
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Cryptocurrency. Decentralized finance. Nonfungible tokens. Once only experts on the cutting edge of financial services were familiar with these terms. Now, with the emergence of digital assets within the global financial system, crypto, DeFi, and NFTs are becoming part of the mainstream financial services lexicon. The rapidly emerging crypto ecosys…
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Deep Dive 222 – The Return of Supplemental Environmental Projects
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On May 5, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new "Comprehensive Environmental Justice Strategy." One piece of this new strategy was an Interim Final Rule reintroducing the use of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) in environmental enforcement action settlements. As defined by the Biden administration, SEPs are "local …
Infraestruturas verdes criam cidades mais resilientes às alterações climáticas. Maria do Rosário Oliveira, arquiteta paisagista e investigadora do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, descreve como o projeto Conexus está a implementar soluções baseadas na natureza na cidade de Lisboa.…
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What's Next for HBCUs with North Carolina Central University
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Guests: Dr. Gia Soublet Vice Chancellor, Institutional Advancement at NCCU Dr. Catherine Edmonds Chief of Staff Stephen W. Fusi Chief Brand Officer In This Episode: Grounded in a legacy of 111 years of excellence, NCCU offers top-ranked programs in disciplines including the sciences, law, business, and education. We discuss who each guest considers…
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Deep Dive 221 – A Discussion on Occupational Licensing feat. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox
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On June 7, 2022, the Regulatory Transparency Project hosted a live discussion on occupational licensing via Twitter Spaces. Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox opened the program with remarks on licensing reforms his state has recently pursued, and an expert panel featuring Jon Gabriel, Scott Lincicome, Colin Mortimer, and moderator Shoshana Weissmann the…
Açudes e barragens são habituais na paisagem portuguesa, mas já pensou no impacto ambiental da disrupção da continuidade fluvial? Rui Cortes, docente na UTAD e especialista em ecossistemas fluviais, fala-nos de alguns problemas, incluindo a libertação de gases com efeito de estufa.Av Biosfera
Três investigadores levam-nos à descoberta de diferentes áreas da biologia, demonstradas aos mais novos no evento BioBlitz, no Parque de Serralves. Vamos à boleia com Rui Oliveira, Investigador da Universidade de Coimbra, Carlota Carqueja, Educadora Ambiental da Fundação de Serralves, e Jael Palhas, Investigador do Centro de Ecologia Funcional.…
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Deep Dive 220 – The Government’s Arms Around Cryptocurrency: Hug or Stranglehold?
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As the cryptocurrency industry grows, state and federal governments are considering how that industry should be regulated. The President has directed the Secretary of the Treasury to report soon on the issues involved. A draft bill that would regulate stablecoins has been released in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, states are competing with one another…
Portugal vai experienciar mais fenómenos atmosféricos adversos nos próximos anos. Como pode o ordenamento do território ser uma solução? Uma conversa sobre as consequências das alterações climáticas no ar que respiramos com Carlos Borrego, professor do Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar da Universidade de Aveiro.…
Jorge Cancela é produtor no Bairro Ribatejano. Através de uma exploração multidisciplinar, pouco mecanizada e em modo de produção biológico, consegue depender menos de fatores externos. Uma vantagem importante numa altura em que a seca e o aumento dos custos de fatores de produção afetam agricultores por todo o país.…
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Explainer 36 – Restrictions on Direct Car Sales
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In this episode, Adam Thierer interviews Professor Daniel Crane regarding state restrictions on direct car sales and their implications for automobile markets, including the antitrust concerns they may raise. Featuring: - Daniel Crane, Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School - [Moderator] Adam Thierer, Senior Fe…
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Tech Roundup 17 – Governor Doug Ducey on Tech Policy and Innovation
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Eight years after he was first sworn in, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will leave office in January 2023 due to the state's limit of two consecutive terms. In this episode, Governor Ducey joined tech policy experts Brent Skorup and Adam Thierer to discuss initiatives aimed at boosting innovation Arizona has launched during his time in office. Their c…
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Tech Roundup 16 – The Catawba Digital Economic Zone
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In February 2022, the Catawba Nation of South Carolina voted to approve the first tribal digital economic zone in the United States. This "Catawba Digital Economic Zone" includes an independent regulatory framework and commercial code, which its organizers intend to utilize to attract financial technology firms to the Zone as online "ecorporations.…
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Deep Dive 219 – Four Years Later, Did the “New Madison Approach” to IP and Antitrust Promote Innovation?
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In 2018, then-Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim announced with great fanfare the "New Madison Approach" to intellectual property and antitrust disputes, rejecting the application of antitrust law to licensing disputes involving Standards Essential Patents (SEPs) and announcing that SEP holders should be entitled to injunctive relief like an…
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Explainer 35 – Why Was the CDC's Travel Mask Mandate Struck Down?
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On April 18, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida vacated the Centers for Disease Control's mask mandate for public transportation. Health law and policy expert Joel Zinberg joined the podcast to break down the ruling and examine the strategy behind the Department of Justice's decision…
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Deep Dive 218 – A Discussion on Stablecoins
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Stablecoins are unique types of digital tokens that have emerged out of the cryptocurrency revolution and have taken center stage in the debate about crypto regulation. Tied to the value of an asset or fiat currency such as the dollar, stablecoins were initially created to ease the trade between different cryptocurrencies and crypto exchanges. Yet …
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Deep Dive 217 – The Separation of Powers, From Washington to Sacramento
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Are state governors subject to the same separation of powers restrictions as the federal president? Expanding on a Regulatory Transparency Project panel discussion on emergency executive power during the pandemic, this event featured experts engaging in a broader separation of powers discussion about the distinctions between the federal and state s…
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Deep Dive 216 – Title VI, College Admissions, and Public Opinion
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With the Supreme Court about to hear two cases involving the use of race in admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, what do Americans actually think about preferential treatment? Dr. Althea Nagai, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), presented her analysis of recent data from the Pew Research Center …
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Tech Roundup 15 – Rail Automation and Forced Access
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Experts Ian Adams and Ike Brannon join the podcast to break down recent proposals regarding forced access to railroads. Is concentration an issue within the rail industry? If so, would forced access solve the problem? And what implications would a forced access rule have for the rail industry, and for technological innovation more generally? Read I…
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Deep Dive 215 – Sundown for the SUNSET Rule?
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In January 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") finalized its SUNSET Rule. Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act ("RFA") requires agencies to have a written plan to review their significant regulations every ten years to determine their impact on small entities (and to determine whether the regulations should be amended…
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Legacy Building with Saint Augustine's University
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Guests: Christine J. McPhail President of St. Augustine's University Veronica Creech The Vice President of Economic Development and External Engagement Dr. Carolyn Carter Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Marketing, and Communications. In This Episode: Saint Augustine’s University (SAU and HBCU) was established in 1867 in Raleigh, NC by …
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Deep Dive 214 – Emergency Management Statutes: Lessons from COVID-19
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In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was sweeping the country and governors throughout the nation were issuing declarations of emergency. What followed was a perhaps unprecedented period of emergency governance, wherein governors in many states asserted power to manage not only their state's economy, but significant portions of civil society, in re…
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Deep Dive 213 – After California and Virginia, What’s Next? Examining the State of State Data Privacy Legislation
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Data privacy and data security are tech policy concerns that resonate with many voters and policymakers. In the absence of federal data privacy legislation, some states have passed, and others are considering, their own legislation to deal with data privacy questions related to specific technologies including biometrics, among many others. While Ca…
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Deep Dive 212 – Litigation Update: Roberts v. Bassett: NY Racial Preferences in Allocating COVID Treatments
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Faced with a limited supply of recently-approved COVID-19 treatments, both the State and City of New York have issued directives instructing physicians and providers on how to prioritize treatment. One of the factors to be considered is race. In Roberts v. Bassett, two lifelong New Yorkers challenge the government's race-based allocation of potenti…
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Deep Dive 211 – Section 230, Common Law, and Free Speech
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Social media has become a prominent way for lawmakers, public agencies, experts, and governments to communicate with the public. Meanwhile, a once-obscure provision in federal communications law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — has become a political football because it provides liability protections to internet-based companies lik…
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Explainer 34 – Institute for Justice's "Barriers to Business" Report
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"To better understand the challenges small businesses face and to offer recommendations," Institute for Justice's Andrew Meleta and Alex Montgomery "analyzed the codes of 20 large to mid-sized cities, interviewed entrepreneurs from across the country, and mapped out the real-world process of starting five common business types from the entrepreneur…
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Deep Dive 210 – Cryptocurrencies: Money, Trust and Regulation
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Dr. Oonagh McDonald’s latest book, “Cryptocurrencies: Money, Trust and Regulation,” discusses the nature of money, the introduction of the first cryptocurrency – Bitcoin – and the maturation of the space, how regulators have approached the burgeoning industry, and whether cryptocurrencies might ultimately be viable alternatives to “money” as we kno…
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Tech Roundup 14 – Telematics in Cars and the Regulation of Auto Insurance
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Ian Adams joined the podcast to break down the policy aspects of a recent Twitter spat between Elon Musk and California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. What are telematics, and how are they used by the auto insurance industry? What is California's Proposition 103? What lessons can this episode teach about policy regarding emerging technologies…
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Deep Dive 209 – Who Should Decide Whether Drugs Are Available Over-The-Counter or by Prescription?
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In October 2020, Michael Cannon and Jeffrey Singer proposed ending the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's authority to decide which drugs are available only by prescription. Their solution: leaving the decision to the drugs' manufacturers. This Regulatory Transparency Project program featured Michael Cannon, former FDA official Joshua Sharfstein, …
Guests: Donald Thompson Donald is CEO of The Diversity Movement, a results-oriented, data-driven strategic firm offering clients a productized DEI journey built on digital learning tools, expertly-curated content, conversational AI, and analytics. The company was recently named to Inc. Magazine’s 2021 Best in Business List in DE&I Advocacy. In addi…
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Explainer 33 – Litigation Update: Shaw v. Metro. Gov't
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On January 26, the Tennessee State Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Shaw et. al. v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, a case in which the plaintiffs are challenging a zoning provision that prevented them operating businesses out of their homes. The city argues that the provision is "rationally related to the legitimate …
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Deep Dive 208 – A Debate on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
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On February 2, 2022, Lawrence Gostin, David Hyman, and Jenin Younes joined the Federalist Society's Georgetown Law Student Chapter to debate COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Featuring: - Lawrence Gostin, University Professor, Founding Linda D. & Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Faculty Director of O'Neill Institute for National & Global…
Welcome to the Crossroads RTP Podcast brought to you by Research Triangle Park. Where people and ideas converge. Bringing you expert guests on topics like community engagement, higher education, DEI, and emerging business in North Carolina's Triangle Region.Interviewed by host Ray Trapp, Vice President of Strategic Engagement at RTP, and cohost, Sa…
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Deep Dive 207 – Litigation Update: Investigating Title VI and Title IX Complaints
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 supplemented Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include, in addition to barring discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national origin, sex as a protected class in federally funded education programs or activities. The purpose of enacting Title IX was to ensure that everyone, regardless…
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Tech Roundup 13 – Autonomous Vehicles: Where Are We Now?
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Experts Marc Scribner and Adam Thierer join us to provide an update on autonomous vehicle (AV) policy. Why has Congress been unable to pass significant AV legislation? How have the Department of Transportation and state governments filled that void? What are the best and worst examples of how governments should approach AVs? Related Reading: - "Con…
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Explainer 32 – The Vaccine Mandate Cases and the Future of Administrative Law
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On January 13, the Supreme Court stayed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses, but allowed a vaccine mandate for staff at facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding to go into effect. An expert panel joined us to break down these rulings' implications for administrat…
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Deep Dive 206 – Intellectual Property in a Pandemic: The Proposed COVID-19 WTO Waiver
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In October 2020, India and South Africa filed a request at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to create an exemption from an international treaty known as TRIPS (Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) for technologies, drugs, and vaccines used to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the WTO adopts the waiver, countries could refuse …