Nov 23
I’ve just written a short and preliminary precis for a new project: Crowd Control: Economic Disruption and the Regulation of Mass Protest, which I’ve posted on SSRN. I’ll talk about it at the Graduate Student Conference at Hebrew University next month.
Sam Tyler, President of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, spoke about its role in contributing to policy discussions in yesterday’s Law and Public Policy class.
I’m looking forward to participating in the GRIP/SPEA conference on “Converging and Conflicting Trends in the Public Administration of the US, Europe, and Germany” in Speyer next July 19-20. More conference details are here.
Rogan Kersh, Associate Dean at the Wagner School/NYU, visited the Rappaport Center today to give a talk on implementation of the Affordable Care Act — part of our BCBS/Rappaport Roundtable series. Nancy Turnbull of Harvard’s School of Public Health served as commentator.
Ben Forman, Research Director for MassInc, talked to my Law and Public Policy class today about the Gateway Cities program.
I just published a new article: Containing Outrage: How Police Power Tames the Occupy Movement, Boston Review, November 2011. (Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast also picked up on the piece.)
The manuscript version of the introduction to America’s First Great Depression is now available on SSRN.
Jeff Mullan, former Secretary of the MA Department of Transportation, talked about the challenges of merging state agencies in today’s Law and Public Policy class.
Joan Vennochi, oped writer at the Boston Globe, talked to my Law and Public Policy class today about the changing role of the media in the policy process.
I just recorded a Rappaport Center podcast with Stephen Fehr of the Pew Center on the States, about the states’ fiscal crisis.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
