The Regulatory Review presents its top essays, series, and features from the past year.
Throughout the past year, regulators from around the world encountered challenges posed by artificial intelligence, climate change, and electoral upheavals—to name but a few of the many consequential developments from 2024 related to regulatory policy. In the United States, several key U.S. Supreme Court decisions—including one that overruled the 40-year-old Chevron decision—have created new challenges as well.
As 2024 comes to an end, those of us at The Regulatory Review reflect on the integral role that regulation continues to play in shaping local, national, and global events and in addressing novel challenges facing the world.
In this year-end series, The Regulatory Review highlights recent regulatory research and developments and showcases the most widely read essays published in The Regulatory Review during the past twelve months.
We first spotlight the top essays, based on page views, that we received from some of the world’s leading commentators on regulatory law and policy. We then focus on the most-viewed essays that were written by The Regulatory Review’s own staff members. Next, we revisit all our special essay series published within the past year. Then, we recap a selection of the major regulatory news stories from the past year as selected by our associate editors who produce our Week in Review feature every Friday. We next highlight the most widely viewed Saturday Seminars. Finally, we showcase our second year of interviews with leading regulatory thinkers and leaders published as part of our Sunday Spotlight feature.
At The Regulatory Review, it is not only our privilege to publish new, daily content on some of the most pressing regulatory issues; it is also our responsibility to provide this public service. We cherish this opportunity to help inform readers from around the world about important regulatory issues and provide a neutral forum for engagement with a diverse set of viewpoints. By publishing new content daily, we seek to bring clarity to complex, consequential policy debates and improve accessibility to the fascinating and vital world of regulation.
As 2025 begins, we thank our readers and contributors for engaging with us throughout the year. We extend to you our very best wishes for the new year.
– The Editorial Board of The Regulatory Review
Top Contributor Essays of 2024
December 30, 2024
We are pleased to feature the top essays written by our non-staff contributors in 2024, including David B. Froomkin’s “Textual Tensions in the Vesting Thesis,” Gabriel Scheffler and Daniel E. Walters’s “Revealing the Submerged Administrative State,” Giulia G. Cusenza’s “What Do U.S. Courts Say About the Use of AI?” … and more.
Top Staff Essays of 2024
December 31, 2024
We are pleased to feature the top essays written by The Regulatory Review staff in 2024, including Zoe Stern’s “Trump’s Deregulatory Failures,” Riann Winget’s “Enron Revisited,” Will Rasenberger’s “Copyright and Creativity in the Age of AI” … and more.
Featured Series of 2024
January 2, 2025
We are pleased to revisit all our special series published in The Regulatory Review during 2024, including “Global Perspectives on Psychedelics Regulation,” “Moving Administrative Processes Forward, Together,” and “The Supreme Court’s 2023–2024 Regulatory Term.”
Top Regulatory News of 2024
January 3, 2025
In this special edition of our regular Friday feature—The Week in Review—we recap some of the top regulatory news from throughout the past year.
Top Saturday Seminars of 2024
January 4, 2025
We are pleased to highlight the top Saturday Seminars written by The Regulatory Review staff in 2024, including “Is It Time to End Animal Testing?” by Alyson Diaz, Korinne Dunn, and Saba Mengesha, “The Future of Mining in Outer Space” by Cross Conrad, Karson Taylor, and Mikaela Wells, “International Approaches to Surrogacy Regulation” by Julia Englebert, Carson Turner, and Narintohn Luangrath … and more.
Featured Sunday Spotlights of 2024
January 5, 2025
We are pleased to revisit each of our interviews published as part of our newest feature—the Sunday Spotlight—which focuses on timely conversations with scholars, practitioners, and commentators, including this year with Sophia Lee, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Julia Black, Warden of Nuffield College at Oxford University, Steven Croley, general counsel of Ford Motor Company … and more.
