Public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have introduced “social distancing” into the national lexicon. Drone companies believe they can help. Drone technology is ready to break out into a mass service and reduce person-to-person contact. There are a few dozen pilot...

Industrial policy is experiencing a major revival in the United States as policymakers and pundits of various ideological backgrounds propose ambitious new government schemes to boost innovation in a wide variety of sectors. Much of this advocacy focuses on creating detailed blueprints to...

Industrial policy is experiencing a major revival in the United States as policymakers and pundits of various ideological backgrounds propose ambitious new government schemes to boost innovation in a wide variety of sectors. Much of this advocacy focuses on creating detailed blueprints to...

A trial passed without a lesson learned is an opportunity wasted. Special purpose acquisition companies, better known to the world as SPACs, took the financial world by storm from 2020 to 2022 as an alternative to traditional Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs. While not novel themselves, SPACs...

The sudden, mandated closures of businesses, restaurants, and schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic impose severe economic and social costs. People want to know when they can reopen their shops, rehire furloughed employees, and return to a life with some semblance of normalcy. Medical...

Worldwide, commercial drone services are being tested and permitted. Progress in the United States has been slow, in part because of a lack of clarity about the federal and state roles over drones and airspace management. To jump-start the drone industry, states can create drone highways —...

In this article, we identify why, despite competition, falling prices, and expanding output in telecommunications and media, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will survive indefinitely and may expand its jurisdiction. A prominent theory after the deregulatory Telecommunications Act of...

The commercialization of air taxis and autonomous passenger drones will one day congest urban airspace. Operators expect that, once flights are autonomous and the cost of service falls, high traffic urban “vertiports” could see hundreds of air taxi takeoffs and landings per hour. Low...

The commercialization of air taxis and autonomous passenger drones will one day congest urban airspace. Operators expect that, once flights are autonomous and the cost of service falls, high-traffic urban “vertiports” could see hundreds of air taxi takeoffs and landings per hour....

As internet businesses started to emerge in the 1990s, online content distributors were taken to court for material they published or republished. While one court found in Cubby v. CompuServe (1991) that the internet-based company was not liable, a second court trying Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy...