This essay, delivered as the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies’s 2003 distinguished lecture, now is available for download and purchase.

The legal professoriate and commentariat are completely unhinged over the impending demise of the individual mandate. ... Let's go to the transcript and try to explain this one more time, in terms that even the Harvard crowd may be able to comprehend.

AEI's Michael Greve reacts to the Supreme Court's decision on Sarbanes Oxley and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board appointments.

REINS would improve environmental regulation by giving legislators a role in updating our obsolete environmental statutes. EPA has been rolling grenades to succeeding presidential administrations since it was established. The origin of the rolling, ticking hand grenades is Congress.

Is Michael Bloomberg to blame for the deaths of the 18 Muslim men in Indian-controlled Kashmir who rioted over reports that someone in America burned the Koran?

Regulatory drag can be reduced only as part of a reform that credibly promises to ease burdens and protect the public. Such reform is possible, but it needs to start by changing how Congress approaches regulation: lawmakers must assume responsibility for rule-making.

On December 4, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke at AEI about the practical difficulties of applying economic reasoning to judicial decisions.

Elena Kagan is continuing the process of Supreme Court nominees saying as little as possible in confirmation hearings, despite her past statements that the hearing process has become a sham.