New Perspectives on U.S. Regulatory History: Past and Present of Public Utilities and Antitrust Law
New Perspectives on U.S. Regulatory History: Past and Present of Public Utilities and Antitrust Law
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This research conference brings together leading historians and legal scholars interested in the history and future of the U.S. regulatory tradition. During his renowned career at HBS, Professor Tom McCraw helped establish the field of regulatory studies, bridging the fields of history, law, economics, and political science. His work focused on both firms and their regulatory environment to explain economic development in the United States. His scholarship contributed to important works of legal and business history on the evolution of the corporate form, the influence corporate actors on public regulation, and the importance of social science research on regulatory choices.
This conference seeks to reinvigorate McCraw’s insight that interdisciplinary dialogue is necessary to understand the complexities of modern regulatory policy. The conference builds on the HBS tradition that McCraw helped establish by bringing together business historians and legal scholars interested in bridging disciplines and transcending historiographical tropes. The conference thus convenes leading scholars whose collaboration will influence the future of U.S. regulatory policy and academic studies.
This conference is co-hosted by Professor Laura Phillips Sawyer and Professor Herbert Hovenkamp.