Administrative law has a racial blind spot, argues Daniel E. Ho of Stanford Law School. Judges have long set aside agency actions when government officials have failed to consider the differential impacts of their policy decisions on subgroups

Board Diversity and Community Lending: Brian D. Feinstein

Aug 17th, 2022 22m 15s

The racial wealth gap in the United States is driven in part by a lack of access to credit among communities of color. But as Brian D. Feinstein of the Wharton School relays in this episode, new empirical research indicates that increasing the

Vaccination Equity by Design: Olatunde C. Johnson

Aug 3rd, 2022 20m 37s

Racial disparities have occurred in COVID-19's health effects and fatalities. They have persisted through the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines too, which saw a greater uptake in socioeconomically privileged segments of the population. These outcome

Citizenship, Race, and Political Inequality: Ming Hsu Chen

Jul 20th, 2022 33m 18s

Formal citizenship requirements for political participation excludes not only noncitizens, but also many individuals from racial communities perpetually seen as foreigners. Ming Hsu Chen of the University of California Hastings College of Law l

Race, Social Inequalities, and Clinical Drug Trials: Jill Fisher

Jul 6th, 2022 30m 17s

As mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, clinical trials for new pharmaceuticals enroll healthy people as paid research participants to test for drug safety and tolerability. But the social injustices from these trials are too ofte

Racial Equity and Data Privacy: Anita Allen

Jun 22nd, 2022 34m 37s

In this episode, Anita Allen, an internationally renowned expert on the philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, reveals how race-neutral privacy laws in the U.S. have failed to address the unequal burdens faced online by Bl

Creating an Inclusive National Politics: Guy Charles

Jun 8th, 2022 31m 23s

Throughout American history, racial inequality and political inequality have gone hand-in-hand. Building a truly representative democracy today and in the future will depend on ending racial discrimination in voting. In this episode, election l

Redlined Forever?: Jessica Trounstine

May 25th, 2022 24m 13s

Racial segregation in American cities is no accident. Building on research from her award-winning book, Segregation by Design, political scientist Jessica Trounstine of UC-Merced examines how local land use regulations aimed at protecting the p

Why Are There So Few Black Financial Regulators?: Chris Brummer

May 25th, 2022 21m 39s

For generations, regardless of which party has controlled the White House, Black leaders have been virtually absent across the federal government’s financial regulatory bodies—a state of affairs that has severely limited the representation of B

Black Families Matter: Dorothy Roberts

May 25th, 2022 32m 33s

Drawing on her latest book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, law and sociology expert Dorothy Roberts examines the fundamental racism of the child welfare system, which

Race and Regulation (2 minute trailer)

May 18th, 2022 2m 1s

Race and Regulation focuses on the most fundamental responsibility of any society: ensuring equal justice, and dignity and respect, to all people. The host is Cary Coglianese, the Director of the Penn Program on Regulation and a professor at th

Race and Regulation (1 minute trailer)

May 10th, 2022 1m

The Penn Program on Regulation’s podcast, Race and Regulation, focuses on the most fundamental responsibility of any society: ensuring equal justice, and dignity and respect, to all people. Over the 10-episode podcast series, listen as leading