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About the Event
Federal agencies’ cost-benefit analyses do not capture animals’ interests. This omission matters. Cost-benefit analysis drives many regulatory decisions that substantially affect many billions of animals. That omission creates a regulatory blind spot that is untenable as a matter of morality and of policy. After briefly outlining the regulatory system and explaining why cost-benefit analysis matters within it, Professor Stawasz will argue why federal agencies should reject the status quo for animals in cost-benefit analysis. He will also lay out tractable options for implementing that vision.
About the Speakers
Andrew Stawasz is a Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. His teaching and research explore what values are reflected in the economic analyses that guide legal decision making, especially agency benefit-cost analyses. He draws on his experiences as an Adviser at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs during the Biden-Harris administration, as a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, and as a Research Associate at Data for Decisions LLC. Before moving to Michigan, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
This event is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Bioethics.