Richard L. Revesz, administrator of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is the speaker for this spring’s Year of Learning lecture. Revesz is one of the country’s leading voices in environmental and regulatory law and policy.
The talk, which is free and open to the public and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience, will be held Thursday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Perella Auditorium in Rauch Business Center. An RSVP is requested.
The Year of Learning is a college-wide initiative that focuses Lehigh Business students and faculty on a particular area of interest through classroom activities and campus events. This year’s theme is the interdependency between government and business.
Revesz’s talk will center around managing the regulatory process.
“When we think of the interdependence of government and business, the topic of regulation comes to mind. It is the classic optimization of private good versus public good,” said Georgette Chapman Phillips, the Kevin L. and Lisa A. Clayton Dean of the College of Business. “With the implementation of regulation comes bureaucracy which some claim limits innovation and adds cost. Administrator Revesz will give insight into how we, as a society, can strike the right balance.”
Revesz has published ten books and around 80 articles in major law reviews and journals advocating for protective and rational climate change and environmental policies and examining the institutional contexts in which regulatory policy is made.
In 2008, Revesz founded the Institute for Policy Integrity, a think tank and advocacy organization with a full-time staff of 27, primarily lawyers and Ph.D. economists, that promotes desirable climate change and environmental policies
Between 2014 and 2023, Revesz was the director of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law. He is also the AnBryce Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at the New York University School of Law (on leave).
The event qualifies for the Student to Professional co-curriculum and the Creative Curiosity 5x10 Foundation. Students should bring their IDs.