Rethinking Regulation @ the Kenan Institute for Ethics: Founded by Edward Balleisen in 2006, Rethinking Regulation is an interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach program exploring the broad terrain of regulatory governance through both descriptive and normative approaches, connecting faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from around the Research Triangle. The program serves as a launching pad for interdisciplinary research and education projects, providing a new means of connecting faculty and students across the boundaries of disciplines and professional schools.
Bass Connections: Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review Part of a larger initiative at Duke to create vertically integrated, interdisciplinary teams to conduct research in a collaborative environment, this project will study the emerging efforts of government agencies throughout the world to evaluate the actual impacts of their regulatory programs—so-called “retrospective regulatory review” (RRR). As RRR mechanisms proliferate, a number of questions arise: Who performs these reviews, and what are their goals? What are their methods? How do their findings influence regulatory policy? Through comparative analysis of case studies at the local, national, and international levels, the team will examine how well these mechanisms are functioning, and learn how they could do better.
Regulatory Oral History Hub: An online gateway to oral histories that illuminate various aspects of regulatory governance. Most commonly, this means interviews with regulators, the regulated, or political actors who were instrumental in creating or changing regulatory agencies or frameworks—usually lawyers, judges, and legislators, but also grassroots activists, industry lobbyists, and interested academics.This project was conceived by Edward J. Balleisen, associate professor of history at Duke University. Elizabeth Brake and Will Goldsmith conducted an initial inventory of oral history collections related to regulatory governance.
Perspectives on Modern Regulatory Governance: Currently incorporated into the Regulatory Oral History Hub, an ongoing project guided by Edward Balleisen that employs a collaborative framework for research and conducting oral history interviews with regulators, involving graduates, undergraduates, and faculty members.
