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Expertise and Polarization, by Zachary Price

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Bill Araiza’s stellar new book Rebuilding Expertise offers a thoughtful program for reform of contemporary administrative law.  With his trademark clear prose and fair-minded analysis, Araiza offers […]

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Political Expertise and Judicial Review, by Louis J. Virelli III

*This is the fifth post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. I am grateful for the opportunity to share some thoughts on Bill Araiza’s wonderful new book, Rebuilding Expertise. The book makes many interesting and valuable […]

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Better Procedures and Regulations Are Not an Answer to the Loss of Trust in Government, by William Funk

*This is the fourth post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. In Rebuilding Expertise, Professor Araiza has created a comprehensive analysis of the problems faced by federal regulatory agencies and has provided recommendations to improve […]

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A Wise and Balanced Case for Shoving the Pendulum Toward Technocracy, by Richard Murphy

*This is the third post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Professor Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise provides a terrifically informative, wise, and balanced tour of the evolution of agency rulemaking as well as the legislative, executive, and judicial structures that […]

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Public Engagement with Elected Representatives, by Glen Staszewski

*This is the second post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. The role of politics and expertise is one of the defining tensions in administrative law. My students learn that there are HBO people who believe that rulemaking […]

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Government, Expertise, and a “Fair Chance in the Race of Life,” by Sid Shapiro

*This is the first post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. The American public has lost faith in expertise. The reason why, as author and national security expert Tom Nichols points out in his 2017 […]

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Introduction to the Symposium on Rebuilding Expertise, by William Araiza

*This is the introductory post in a symposium on William Araiza’s Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. All posts from this symposium can be found here. I’m honored that the N&C blog has agreed to host an online symposium on my book, Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of […]

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Reply to the Dream Team: The Critically Constructive Pathways of Building Equality Machines, by Orly Lobel

*This is the final post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Lobel will be in NYC (NYU March 23 at […]

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In Praise of Inequality, by Colleen V. Chien

*This is the eleventh post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Equality is appealing, can be SMART, and as […]

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Naïve Realism, Cognitive Bias, and the Benefits and Risks of AI, by Harry Surden

*This is the tenth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In the The Equality Machine, Orly Lobel […]

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On the Need For (and Difficulties of) Reaching A “Mature Position” About AI, by Oren Tamir & Tomer Kenneth

*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. How things change. In the not-too-remote past, […]

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Upcoming Blog Symposium: Rebuilding Expertise, by William Araiza

Next week, Notice & Comment will host an online symposium on William Araiza’s recent book, Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. For anyone who lives in the New York City area or who may be visiting next week, next Tuesday evening, March 21, Brooklyn Law School will be hosting a […]

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The Machine in the Mirror, by Stephanie Bornstein

*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. There is something both wonderful and troubling […]

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Public-Private AI Governance Partnerships, by Elena Chachko

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine invites us to shift […]