Scott Jacobs was pleased to lecture in May 2014 at the Joseph von Sonnenfels Center for the Study of Public Law and Economics, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, in the program on law and economics organized by Wolfgang Weigel, Associate Professor of Economics, and one of the fathers of law and economics in Europe.
In August 2014, Professor Jong Seok Kim, Director Emeritus of JC&A, was appointed by the President of South Korea to the Regulatory Reform Committee for the third time. He will chair the Subcommittee on Economic Regulations. The South Korean government is again speeding up its regulatory reform drive. Best of luck to the RRC of South
JC&A was pleased to open its Latin American firm, Jacobs, Cordova & Asociados, in Mexico City this Fall. Jorge Velazquez Roa is heading up this new firm, which will offer regulatory reform services in Latin America. We now offer our services from offices in Washington, DC; Dublin; Mexico City, and Seoul.
JC&A has launched a new RIA course in Spanish language to expand our RIA courses already offered in English twice a year in Rome. The new course is offered in partnership with the CLEAR Center for Latin America and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE). This executive course on the principles , procedures
The regulatory guillotineTM in Iraq, which was designed by JC&A as the lead technical advisor, is continuing under Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. A recent article (15 September 2014) by Adil Alami inAl Sabaah, the official newspaper of Iraq, argues that the transition to pluralist democracy and the “transformation of the Iraqi economy from a socialist economy dominated central
