Academics
Professor Curtis Bradley
Professor Curtis Bradley, the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, discusses the interdisciplinary nature of academic life at Duke Law, citing a seminar on housing issues in East Jerusalem as one example of academic cooperation across University departments.
Course Profile
Regulation and De-regulation of U.S. Industries (377)
The deregulation of the energy and telecommunications industries was one of the most controversial governmental acts in the U.S. and the U.K. in the 1980s and 1990s. This seminar will cover the deregulation of such industries with emphasis on the legal and financial impacts, the relationship between federal and state regulatory jurisdiction, the challenges to deregulation and, particularly, issues such as market power, price caps, stranded costs, the California energy crisis, the collapse of Enron and Global Crossing, and the "crunch" on companies such as AT&T, Duke Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric, The Williams Companies, and...
