SMEA Professor and Associate Director Nives Dolšak, UW Director of the Center for Environmental Politics Aseem Prakash and faculty member at the School of Law, Environment and Planning at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in India Shalini Iyengar, recently wrote a piece featured in The Regulatory Review, a publication of the Penn Program on Regulation titled “Should India’s Supreme Court Enforce Regulations?” The article questions the Supreme Court of India’s involvement in enforcing public interest regulations, and whether sustained interventions could affect its ability to interpret the law as an expert, legitimate, and neutral actor. It goes on to highlight some of the positive outcomes of the judicial branch’s involvement in enforcing the law, but points out that “Sustained involvement by judges in regulatory enforcement can potentially undermine their legitimacy.” Read the complete article here: https://www.theregreview.org/2018/03/27/iyengar-dolsak-prakash-india-supreme-court-enforce-regulations/