Panel Discussion: Environmental Regulation and Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis by Policymakers Co-Sponsor: BB&T Program for the Study of Capitalism

Tue, Jan 31 2017, 4 - 6pm

Gatton 307 - Woodward Hall

Join the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise and the BB&T Program for the Study of Capitalism for the panel discussion "Environmental Regulation and Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis by Policymakers" on January 31^st, 2017.

The panel discussion will feature Dr. William Hoyt, Gatton Endowed Professor and Department of Economics Chair at the University of Kentucky; Ilya Shapiro, J.D., Senior Fellow for the Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review at the Cato Institute; Michael Healy, J.D., Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky; and Dr. Frank Scott, Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Panelists will discuss the Environmental Protection Agency's use of benefit-cost analysis as part of its process of designing environmental policies and regulations and will debate the efficacy of the EPA benefit-cost analysis.

The event is free and open to the public. Please join us in Gatton B&E Woodward Hall, room 307, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Pizza and refreshments will be served at the end of the event.

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Speakers

William Hoyt Gatton Endowed Professor and Department of Economics Chair, University of Kentucky

William Hoyt is a Gatton Endowed Professor and the Department of Economics Chair in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. William Hoyt’s research focuses on issues in public economics, with particular emphasis on state and local public finance and cost-benefit analysis of public programs. Dr. Hoyt’s current research includes work on fiscal competition, the impacts of state and local tax policies on employment, the impacts of tax policies on housing markets, educational choice plans and crossover in the use of poverty programs. Dr. Hoyt has served as Principal Investigator on projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the United States Department of Agriculture (Economic Research Service). He is a research associate at the Center for Economic Studies (Munich, Germany) and Editor of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. He has served on numerous advisory boards for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and was previously on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Economics.

Ilya Shapiro Senior Fellow for the Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute

Ilya Shapiro is a Senior Fellow for the Cato Institute's Constitutional Studies and the Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi‐National Force in Iraq on rule‐of‐law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. Shapiro is an expert in constitutional law and has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications on topics such as the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, free speech, and religious liberty. Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow).

Michael Healy Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law, University of Kentucky

Michael Healy is the Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He began teaching at the College of Law in 1990 and teaches courses in Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Legislation, and Torts. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude in Chemistry from Williams College and his law degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Articles Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and was elected to membership in the Order of the Coif. Professor Healy is a co-author of the casebook, Administrative Law, published by Aspen. His articles on public law have appeared in a number of journals, including the George Mason Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Ecology Law Quarterly. Professor Healy has served as a Fulbright lecturer at Xiamen University in the People’s Republic of China for the Spring 2004 semester and as a Visiting Lecturer at Coventry University, England, for the Spring 1997 semester. Professor Healy served as the College’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2004-2008. He is currently serving as the University’s Academic Ombud. He began serving in this position in 2014. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Healy practiced as an attorney with the Appellate Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1987-1990, and as an associate with Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., from 1985-1987. Before beginning his law practice, Professor Healy was a law clerk for Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1984-1985.

Frank Scott Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky

Frank Scott is a Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Formerly he has been an Assistant Professor at Auburn University and Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1973, majoring in economics. He received the Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1979. His teaching interests include microeconomic theory, industrial organization, managerial economics, and law and economics. His research interests include industrial organization, regulation of business, public policy, and applied microeconomics in general. He has published in a variety of academic journals on topics such as franchising, antitrust, tax policy and labor compensation, utility regulation and ratemaking, the economics of lotteries, and the economics of professional sports industries. He has received funding for his research from a variety of federal and state sources. He has served as a consultant to several state and federal government agencies and as a consultant and expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous private-sector businesses.