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WMAL GUESTL 6:35 AM - INTERVIEW - PROF. DONALD KOCHAN - (koh-shen like ocean) – energy law expert and Director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School Liberal Activist Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20 BILLION in climate grants Where to find more about WMAL's morning show: Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor, @Jgunlock, @patricepinkfile, and @heatherhunterdc. Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Thursday, March 20, 2025 / 6 AM Hour See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the 6 AM Hour: Larry O’Connor and Julie Gunlock discussed: Trump admin guts Institute of Peace of ‘rogue bureaucrats’ after DOGE standoff in government office Georgetown University researcher detained by ICE, accused of ‘actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism’: report WMAL GUEST: 6:35 AM - INTERVIEW - PROF. DONALD KOCHAN – energy law expert and Director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School Liberal Activist Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20 BILLION in climate grants Tracking D.C.’s cherry blossoms to peak bloom: Buds reach second stage Where to find more about WMAL's morning show: Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor, @Jgunlock, @patricepinkfile, and @heatherhunterdc. Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Thursday, March 20, 2025 / 6 AM Hour See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode I'm talking with Todd Zywicki, the George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law in the Antonin Scalia Law School and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center.  He is also one of the most engaging and clear thinkers about the vast and complicated world of consumer financial services. He was Chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law and served as Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.  Todd's recent article “Restoring the Rule of Law in Finance” served as our launching point for a fascinating - and disturbing - conversation about how financial regulation has become a key weapon in the progressives arsenal to fundamentally change America. The rule of law is in steep decline in the United States. And perhaps no more so than where I've spent most of my career: in finance and banking.  Financial regulation is unusually convoluted and secretive. It affects us directly every day, but most of us are not even aware of how it operates and its agenda, even though the financial system is an essential infrastructure of our society and economy. It enables people to have a bank account, buy a home, start a business, or simply make a purchase at the grocery store.  This sounds like it could be a commonplace, or even boring topic, but let me assure you, after listening to Todd explain what's really happening, it is not.  For more: https://billwalton.substack.com/publish/posts

Millions of dollars are at stake in a dispute over whether uncashed MoneyGrams qualify as “a money order, traveler's check, or other similar written instrument (other than a third party bank check) on which a banking or financial organization or a business association is directly liable,” pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 2503, and therefore whether they should be escheated to the debtor's or creditor's state.Join us for a discussion with Prof. Donald J. Kochan on the background of the case, takeaways from the oral argument, and the potential impacts the statutory interpretation involved.Featuring:Donald J. Kochan, Professor of Law and Deputy Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Each month, a panel of constitutional experts convenes to discuss the Court's upcoming docket sitting by sitting. The cases that will be covered are included below.Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (October 3) – environmental law; water policy regulations; administrative lawDelaware v. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (October 3) – State claims dispute over travelers checks; financial services & e-commerce Merrill v. Milligan (October 11) – election law; whether Alabama's 2021 redistricting plan violated the Voting Rights Act National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (October 11) – interstate commerce, dormant commerce clauseHelix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt (October 12) – labor law; regulatory policy on overtime pay and exemptions; Fair Labor Standard's ActFeaturing:-- Donald Kochan, Professor of Law and Deputy Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University -- Prof. Michael Dimino, Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School -- Charles Yates, Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation -- Prof. Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School -- Moderator: Adam Gustafson, Senior Counsel for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs at Boeing

Todd Zywicki is a professor of Law at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. He has been on The Great Antidote previously to discuss the field of law and economics, and today we discuss the importance of federalism, the original structure of the legislative branch, and how the 17th amendment changed that structure. 

Kroc Institute alumna Malalai Habibi (MGA '19), Program Officer at the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), talks with Mahbouba Seraj, Executive Director of Afghan Women Skills Development Center who is joining us from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Founder and Executive Director of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and director of the London School of Economics Center for Women, Peace and Security, for a conversation about the current situation on the ground in Afghanistan. They focus in particular on the impact on Afghan women of the U.S. withdrawal and the country's subsequent return to Taliban control in summer 2021. 

“Do NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) and other permitting requirements doom green energy and infrastructure plans?” That was the title of a recent webinar, organized by the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. The Gray Center's Adam White moderated a discussion with Mario Loyola (Competitive Enterprise Institute) and Andrew Rosenberg (Union of... Source

“Do NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) and other permitting requirements doom green energy and infrastructure plans?” That was the title of a recent webinar, organized by the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. The Gray Center’s Adam White moderated a discussion with Mario Loyola (Competitive Enterprise Institute) and […]

“Do NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) and other permitting requirements doom green energy and infrastructure plans?” That was the title of a recent webinar, organized by the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. The Gray Center’s Adam White moderated a discussion with Mario Loyola (Competitive Enterprise Institute) and Andrew Rosenberg (Union of Concerned Scientists). Both have worked firsthand on these issues: Loyola at the Council on Environmental Quality, and Rosenberg at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This episode features Mario Loyola, Andrew Rosenberg, and Adam White.

Episode 118: Guillermo Donoso works at the Water Law and Economics Center and Agricultural Economics Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate students on Water Economics and Management and Natural Resource Economics. He specialises on water allocation, collective water management, urban water economics and policy, water use efficiencies. Prof Donoso also is a board member of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and a member of Stockholm's World Water Week's Scientific Programme Committee. He was Dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the Catholic University of Chile between 1998 and 2007. Guillermo's research page: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-4787 Urban water pricing in Chile: cost recovery, affordability, and water conservation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310839417_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile_cost_recovery_affordability_and_water_conservation_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile Chilean water markets as a water allocation mechanism https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282158199_Chilean_Water_Rights_Markets_as_a_Water_Allocation_Mechanism Análisis Crítico de las Políticas Aplicadas en Latinoamérica en el Sector Agua y Saneamiento https://kysq.org/docs/Ana%CC%81lisis_cri%CC%81tico.pdf

Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center, joins us this week to discuss the national debt, financial regulation, minimum wage, and Law & Economics. 

Asserting their sovereign interests or "states' rights," many states are increasingly attempting to inject state officials' policy preferences on national and global issues through state legislation or regulation on myriad subjects from energy, environmental, immigration, drugs, labor, climate, health, food, to transportation and more. In what ways does the Interstate Commerce Clause, or the so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, limit the scope of the constitutionally legitimate spheres of these kinds of state legislation or regulation? In other words, what is the meaning of federalism in a constitutional system designed to facilitate interstate commerce? And, what is the proper judicial role, if any, in policing state laws that seek to interfere or have the effect of interfering with the free flow of commerce among the several states?These questions are subject to considerable debate, with significant disagreement even within normally like-minded camps. Some conservatives and liberals alike think there is no such thing as an enforceable Dormant Commerce Clause. Others with various ideological priors view the Dormant Commerce Clause as invalidating only state laws that discriminate in favor of in-state activity over activities in other states. Another view posits that the Dormant Commerce Clause is broader than a non-discrimination principle and should be used to invalidate state laws that unduly burden or interfere with the flow of interstate commerce. And still others take views in between or beyond these positions.Responding to Professor Donald Kochan's recent essay in the Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, "The Meaning of Federalism in a System of Interstate Commerce: Free Trade Among the Several States,"—an essay that emphasizes that commerce facilitation was a primary driver of the move from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution—the panelists explore examples of current state laws and regulations that expand a state's reach into national and international affairs, and they analyze and debate the different interpretations of the Constitution regarding the proper role of the judiciary in evaluating these laws.Featuring:- Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law- James Coleman, Associate Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law- Donald Kochan, Professor of Law and Deputy Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason UniversityVisit our website - www.RegProject.org - to learn more, view all of our content, and connect with us on social media.

Asserting their sovereign interests or "states' rights," many states are increasingly attempting to inject state officials' policy preferences on national and global issues through state legislation or regulation on myriad subjects from energy, environmental, immigration, drugs, labor, climate, health, food, to transportation and more. In what ways does the Interstate Commerce Clause, or the so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, limit the scope of the constitutionally legitimate spheres of these kinds of state legislation or regulation? In other words, what is the meaning of federalism in a constitutional system designed to facilitate interstate commerce? And, what is the proper judicial role, if any, in policing state laws that seek to interfere or have the effect of interfering with the free flow of commerce among the several states?These questions are subject to considerable debate, with significant disagreement even within normally like-minded camps. Some conservatives and liberals alike think there is no such thing as an enforceable Dormant Commerce Clause. Others with various ideological priors view the Dormant Commerce Clause as invalidating only state laws that discriminate in favor of in-state activity over activities in other states. Another view posits that the Dormant Commerce Clause is broader than a non-discrimination principle and should be used to invalidate state laws that unduly burden or interfere with the flow of interstate commerce. And still others take views in between or beyond these positions.Responding to Professor Donald Kochan's recent essay in the Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, "The Meaning of Federalism in a System of Interstate Commerce: Free Trade Among the Several States,"—an essay that emphasizes that commerce facilitation was a primary driver of the move from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution—the panelists explore examples of current state laws and regulations that expand a state's reach into national and international affairs, and they analyze and debate the different interpretations of the Constitution regarding the proper role of the judiciary in evaluating these laws.Featuring:- Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law- James Coleman, Associate Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law- Donald Kochan, Professor of Law and Deputy Executive Director, Law and Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason UniversityVisit our website - www.RegProject.org - to learn more, view all of our content, and connect with us on social media.

Nathan Goodman is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Utah. Nathan has worked as a research fellow for the Center for a Stateless Society, a program intern for the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University, and a summer fellow at the Fully Informed Jury Association. His research interests include defense and peace economics, Austrian economics, public choice economics, and self-governance. What would a world beyond cops look like? What is a healthy way of organizing defense in any given society? And how might theory or and actually existing examples of communities without cops, inform our hopes of living in a world without coercive authority? Nathan Goodman has spent some time researching and writing on related topics, and in this episode, we discuss these issues and more in detail. More from Nathan and the organizations he mentions: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3111065 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ue5NBMAAAAJ&hl=en https://c4ss.org/content/author/nathan-goodman https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory http://criticalresistance.org/

On June 18, 2020, the Gray Center co-sponsored a live webinar, “A Discussion on Tort Liability for Businesses During COVID-19,” in partnership with the Law and Economics Center at Antonin Scalia Law School. Risks of the COVID-19 spread create substantial uncertainty for businesses when deciding whether to open up and conduct business, especially as they try to identify their duties in preventing... Source

On June 18, 2020, the Gray Center co-sponsored a live webinar, “A Discussion on Tort Liability for Businesses During COVID-19,” in partnership with the Law and Economics Center at Antonin Scalia Law School. Risks of the COVID-19 spread create substantial uncertainty for businesses when deciding whether to open up and conduct business, especially as they […]Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/arbitrary-capricious/tort-liability-for-businesses-during-covid-19/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to Arbitrary & Capricious in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Dr. Oliver Scott Curry is the research director of Kindlab, and a researcher at Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography as well as the London School of Economics’ Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. His work weaves philosophy, psychology, and anthropology together to tackle questions about the nature of human morality. In this episode, we discuss his theory of morality as cooperation, and the evolutionary and game theory perspectives that underpin it. We also compare and contrast his theory with Moral Foundations Theory, Richard Shweder’s “big three” ethics, and the Relationship Regulation Theory of morality. Transcript available at: https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep25-oliverscottcurry APA citation: Cazzell, A. R. (Host). (2020, February 4). Game Theory, Evolution, and Morality with Oliver Scott Curry [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved from https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep25-oliverscottcurry

The effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history was not an individual challenge alone. The implications were far-reaching, impacting also our marketplace and the overall economy. Dr. Julia Heath, Director of the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati and President of the National Association of Economic Educators explains more on this great episode. 

Anders Richtnér is without doubt one of Sweden’s most prominent researchers in the field of innovation. As associate professor and head of research at the Stockholm School of Economics Center for Innovation and Management in addition to being responsible for the SSE Executive Education innovation team with a wide range of research projects in both ongoing and planning phases in the field of innovation. In this podcast Anders Richtnérs gives his thoughts and ideas on the subject. What defines an innovative company?