Commentaries & Insights

Our Commentaries and Insights are short-form publications intended to distill long-form research and synthesize current policymaking activity into easily understood concepts.


Who Opposes the (Revised) Regulatory Accountability Act?

During the 115th Congress, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Regulatory Accountability Act

Update on VanDerStok “Deference”

The Court’s turn to super-deference in VanDerStok cannot be reconciled with its abandonment of the Chevron doctrine

2025 Regulatory Year in Review

Our policy team looks back at nine important themes of regulatory actions from the previous year.

Exploring the Dynamics of Regulatory Adjudication

Examining the connections of federal agencies and the adjudicate challenges of self-regulatory organizations

Toward a New Multilateralism for AI: Insights from the IMF Annual Meetings 2025

Sessions at the IMF annual meeting considered the adoption of AI and regulatory capacity to guide responsible AI development

A Lack Of Coordination Threatens Environmental Policy

Without interagency and intergovernmental cooperation under NEPA, environmental outcomes will suffer.

AI Regulation and Federalism: What the Moratorium (That Wasn’t) Debate Revealed

Adopting a state-level moratorium against policies regulating artificial intelligence would help ensure consistency and prevent legal fragmentation

Trump's Spring 2025 Unified Agenda

Rulemaking highlights from the first Unified Agenda of the second Trump administration.

A CFTC Commissioner’s and Legal Scholar’s Perspectives on AI and Regulatory Accountability

Virtual remarks by CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson and in-person remarks by Ohio State Law professor Bridget C.E. Dooling

Congress Reviewed: The 119th Congress's Use of the Congressional Review Act

Comparing use of the Congressional Review Act from one lookback window to the last, especially outcomes, trends, and procedural developments.