The Gauer Distinguished Lecture in Law and Public Policy is a major scholarly discourse by a national or world leader. Its primary purpose is to encourage debate by presenting, publishing, and disseminating original work on an important constitutional, legal, or public policy issue...

Two recent phenomena--state-owned or controlled corporations in our public markets, and government-owned commercial investment funds--are challenging conventional approaches to the respective roles of government and the private sector.

Atug of war existsbetween regulation and the natural progress of opulence. Regulation begins as an attack on gradual progress but is often overwhelmed by it.

Christopher DeMuth's introduction of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.

Roger Noll, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, will deliver the 2006 AEI-Brookings Joint Center Distinguished Lecture on why regulatory reform has stalled and why certain costly regulatory practices are spreading to the rest of the world. He will discuss how politics can block beneficial reforms of regulations that...

Paul L. Joskow is president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and presently on leave from MIT, where he is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management. His lecture will review the broad experience with deregulation, regulatory reform, and industry restructuring in the United States over the...