An Oppenheim Lecture featuring Allan Jones, Chief Development Officer, Energy and Climate Change, City of SydneyReservations are required. RSVP by Wednesday, October 9, 2013. Allan Jones led the London Climate Agency, Thameswey Limited in Great Britain, and now Sydney, Australia, towards sustainable self-sufficiency in local energy and water. He will explain the Sydney 2030 Green Infrastructure Plan, […]

PUBLIC POLICY FOR INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE SERIESThe Demise of Ownership: Digital Content in the Age of LicensingVIEW EVENT HIGHLIGHTS, PHOTOS, AND VIDEOModeratorJohn Villasenor Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, UCLAPanelistsLee Knife Executive Director, Digital Media Association (DiMA)Corynne McSherry Intellectual Property Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)Steven Metalitz Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MS&K)Angela Riggio Head of […]

"Using the Tax System to Address Competition Issues with a Carbon Tax"Abstract:This paper considers how tax reductions financed by a carbon tax could be designed to mitigate the need for specific relief for firms in select energy-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) sectors. In particular, I consider impacts on manufacturing sectors at the six-digit North American Industry Classification […]

PUBLIC POLICY FOR INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE SERIESDigital Media in the Age of the CloudVIEW EVENT HIGHLIGHTS, PHOTOS, AND VIDEOModeratorRichard Wolpert Managing Director, Amplify.la; and Venture Advisor, Accel Partners Panelists Dean Marks Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Katherine Oyama Sr. Policy Counsel, Google Betsy Rosenblatt Assistant Professor of Law, Whittier Law School; and Director, Center […]

J.R. DeShazo, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs"Policy and Economic Lessons Learned from the Early Plug-in electric Vehicle Market"J.R. DeShazo is the Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation at the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles. He also is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department ofPublic Policy in the […]