Ted Kennedy Oral History Project Released

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (1990) On Wednesday, the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the Edward M. Kennedy In...

Konczal on American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History

The writer Mike Konczal , a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, has a nice review essay in the on-line Boston Review entitled Hail to the Pe...

"Beyond the New Deal Order" Conference Program

Next week (September 24-26) the University of California, Santa Barbara hosts a conference titled " Beyond the New Deal Order ." T...

Weekend Roundup

Amici, the podcast series of nycourts.gov, has an interview with Marilyn Marcus , executive director of the Historical Society of the New ...

Delegating to the Automobile

56:2 (April 2015) of the journal Technology and Culture is a special issue, "(Auto)Mobility, Accidents, and Danger."  Of special ...

Balleisen's "Business Regulation"

Out next month from Edward Elgar Publishing but available for preorder now is the three-volume collection Business Regulation , edited by ...

Nice Try, Abe!

President Lyndon Johnson, December 11, 1963 ( LC ) The other day I had some time on my hands at the National Archives and, as is my wont, st...

Politics, Administration, and Fair Employment Practices

How Did It Operate?  Without Coercive Power. Library of Congress One of Forging Rivals' chapters focuses on the history of the San Fran...

Two by Giocoli on the Law and Economics of Early 20th Century Rate Regulation

Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa, has posted two papers relating to the law and economics of the regulation of railroad rates in the Unit...

Davies on Sherlock Holmes Meets the Mail Classification Act of 1879

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law, on The Regulatory Adventure of the Two Norwood Builders: Sherlock Holmes Crosses Path...