Who matters in the tax-policy debate? My colleague, Leo Martinez, in his recent article Latinos and the Internal Revenue Code: A Tax Policy Primer for the New Administration, 20 Harv. Latinx L. Rev. 101 (2017), argues that legislators and policymakers should pay more attention to Latinos and how they are adversely affected by the tax law. To… Continue reading Leo Martinez on Latinos and the Internal Revenue Code
A decade of reform efforts has given financial regulators an array of tools to stave off the next crisis—living wills, orderly liquidation authority, and so on. These new tools, in turn, have produced a large and lively literature in legal and economic scholarship. Yet a fundamental question—exactly when regulators should deploy the new regulatory apparatus—has… Continue reading John Crawford on the Timing of Financial Regulation
The past few decades have witnessed an explosion in the size of the largest US law firms, and a widely accepted narrative holds that this has had a negative effect on the well-being and professional satisfaction of lawyers practicing at these firms. In an important exploratory study and new paper, When Does Big Law Work?,… Continue reading Abe Cable on When Big Law Works