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Can regulations come with unintended costs? They certainly can, and often do. Despite the best of intentions, laudable objectives, and lots of hard work by expert staff at government agencies, regulations often impose unintended costs that undermine the objectives they are supposed to achieve and harm the people they are supposed to benefit.
The Regulatory Transparency Project has released a new video in its Fourth Branch video series that examines the unintended costs that often come with new regulations. The video features Professor Susan Dudley, founder and Director of the highly regarded Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University.
In the video, Professor Dudley describes her ongoing work, and that of her fellow scholars at the Regulatory Studies Center, to better understand the kinds and causes of unintended regulatory costs. The goal is to make this understanding available to all interested parties so that in the future government agencies can design better regulations that will more effective achieve their laudable objectives while imposing fewer unintended costs.
This video, and the others in the Fourth Branch series, mark important contributions to the Regulatory Transparency Project and its ongoing efforts to help bring Americans to a better understanding of the regulatory system that affects their lives so significantly.
Kennerly Davis has over forty years of experience in corporate management, public service, and the private practice of law. He has held senior executive positions in a Fortune 500 electric and gas company. He has served as Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and as a legislative aide to a U.S. Senator and a U.S. Congressman. He practiced law for 25 years with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
Davis is active in the Federalist Society as a member of the Regulatory Process Working Group of the Regulatory Transparency Project, and as a member of the Execuitve Committee of the Administrative Law and Regulation Practice Group. He is active in the national Alumni Free Speech Alliance, and involved in AFSA-chapter initiatives, including litigation, to publicize and correct the serious legal problems created by university Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs and the anonymous bias reporting systems used to enforce those DEI programs.
Davis writes and speaks on a wide variety of topics, including those related to the Founding of America, the natural rights foundation of our Republic, the constitutional rule of law, equal protection and free speech, DEI programs and bias reporting systems, capitalism, regulation and regulatory reform, and economic development. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Federalist Society Review, the FedSoc Blog, Real Clear Energy, Townhall, the Daily Caller, reports of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and other publications. He appears frequently on radio, podcasts, and television.
Davis graduated with honors from Cornell University with an A.B. degree in Government. He earned an M.A. degree from Pembroke College, Oxford, in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He was awarded a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Davis lives in Richmond, Virginia. He can be contacted by email: j.kendavis@verizon.net, and by phone: (804) 624-8525.
