Our Projects

About our Projects

Our "projects" are just that: enterprises designed to achieve goals. Each project we undertake seeks to accelerate change in education, research, policy, and public debate. Projects support new research and ideas, build communities around project topics, and connect research to policy and public debate. 

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Project on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities (NPUs)

Many pressing challenges in public policy stem from NPUs, including supply chain issues in railroads, airline flight cancellations, broadband internet access, electric grid crashes, the emergence of nonbank money, and anticompetitive practices on tech platforms. The Project on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities aims to reinvigorate this field of study in law schools, encourage research on the regulation of NPUs, and develop policy proposals to improve NPU governance.

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Project on Industrial Policy and Economic Security (IPES)

The Project on Industrial Policy and Economic Security aims to advance research and policy on supply chain disruptions, domestic production, trade wars, economic sanctions, and state capacity.

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Project on Public Options and Governance

The Project on Public Options and Governance advances research and policy solutions that expand access, enhance competition, and increase opportunity to critical goods and services for American consumers, families, and communities by promoting state capacity building and good governance practices. Topics of interest include federal procurement practices and public options—publicly-provided goods and services that coexist with the private marketplace.

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