Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary,
Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
Apr. 4, 2018
Legal infrastructure: the real building blocks of America's economy
Unless we bring our systems for making rules and regulations into the 21st century, we can’t expect to effectively respond to the increasing complexity, speed, and digital nature of the global economy.
Gillian K. Hadfield
Professor of Law and Economics
University of Southern California
Gillian is the author of "Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy" (OUP).
When President Donald J. Trump deployed five heavyweight cabinet secretaries to defend his $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan before Congress last month, there was a telling omission in the line-up: the absence of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Regardless of Sessions' future in office, his exclusion from the all-star cast signaled that the Trump administration -- like most policy thinkers -- has a blind spot for the most fundamental ...
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