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  • Policy Integrity’s Livermore discusses OMB study on costs, benefits of EPA regulations

    Has there been a shift in tone on regulation during President Obama’s second term? During today’s OnPoint, Michael Livermore, executive director at the Institute for Policy Integrity, discusses the politics of regulation as Congress works through the confirmation process for several key regulatory positions. Livermore also gives his take on how Howard Shelanski, the president’s nominee to head up the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, could affect the future of regulations coming out of this administration.

  • Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis Spreads to Developing World

    Cost-benefit analysis, while embraced by both political parties over the course of the past three decades, is still feared by many progressives in the United States. But as environmental concerns have spread around the world, this tool is lighting a path in many developing countries toward a new generation of environmental policies to protect public health, climate stability, and natural resources. This new role for cost-benefit analysis challenges the sometimes stale and suffocating way in which discussions over cost-benefit analysis are often framed here at home.

  • NYU Law School issues report on fair housing law

    The Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, a non-partisan think tank, issued a report Friday on the implementation of the Fair Housing Act that recommends that the Department of Housing and Urban Development more clearly define fair housing goals and measure the progress of local jurisdictions in meeting the requirements of the law. Click here for the report.

    “Decades after the civil rights movement inspired the Fair Housing Act, HUD still has a long way to go before that law’s vision of fair housing is realized,” said Policy Integrity executive director, Michael Livermore, in a statement. “HUD should take steps to improve fairness and equality in housing markets.”

  • Director of NYU think tank heads for U.Va. law school post

    The Institute for Policy Integrity, a New York University-based think tank and advocacy group that is often involved in the nation’s regulatory debates, is losing Executive Director Michael Livermore this summer to a faculty position at the University of Virginia School of Law.

    Livermore co-authored the book “The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy” with NYU School of Law Dean Richard Revesz before the two founded the institute in 2008. In his new role, Livermore will still be affiliated with the institute, but Revesz will be taking on a larger role as the group’s faculty director.

  • Livermore Brings New Perspective on Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental, Administrative Policy…

    Michael A. Livermore, an expert who has offered a fresh take on using cost-benefit analysis in environmental and administrative policymaking, will join the University of Virginia law faculty in July.

    Livermore is currently the executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law.

  • Michael Livermore ‘06 joins faculty of University of Virginia School of Law

    Michael Livermore ’06, executive director of NYU Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, is joining the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law this July.

    Livermore is the co-author with Dean Richard Revesz of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, which they began working on while Livermore was a student in Dean Revesz’s Environmental Law class. Soon after their book was published, Livermore and Revesz founded the Institute for Policy Integrity, where they served as executive director and faculty director, respectively. Under Livermore’s leadership, the Institute for Policy Integrity has initiated a large number of successful research, educational, and advocacy efforts, in the process becoming a respected voice in often contentious debates over environmental, public health, and consumer regulation.

  • President Taps FTC Economist Shelanski To Lead OMB Regulatory Affairs Office

    Michael Livermore, executive director of New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, praised the selection of Shelanski, saying he brings to the job more real-world experience at a regulatory agency than any previous OIRA administrator.

    Livermore also called Shelanski a “technocrat in orientation and pragmatic. I don’t think he’s going to come to the position with a lot of ideological baggage or a particular axe to grind.”

  • Obama’s Nominee for OIRA Director

    President Obama announced yesterday his selection of Howard Shelanski as the next Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House. OIRA, although not widely known, reviews the regulations that are adopted by nearly all federal agencies: everything from EPA rules to limit mercury pollution from power plants to TSA rules governing airport screening procedures. This will give Shelanski enormous power to shape the remainder of the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda.

  • Obama nominates antitrust expert Shelanski as new regulatory czar

    “It’s a kind of a thankless job,” said Michael Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.

    “You’re almost guaranteed to have a lot of forces aligned against you and unhappy with you,” said Livermore, who called Shelanski a “balanced thinker” who understands the complex regulatory process.

  • Obama taps FTC official to head regulatory office

    “He is a sophisticated legal scholar who is up to date on the most recent research on regulatory economics, but also someone who has an inside view on the real challenges that agencies face,” said Michael Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University.