Robert Hockett is Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order.

June 17, 2023

Interviews

Varieties of Derisking

Industrial policy, macrofinance, and the green transition

, Melanie Brusseler, Daniela Gabor, Chirag Lala, JW Mason

In recent years, the debate over climate policy has moved away from the earlier consensus in favor of carbon pricing and towards an investment-focused approach, illustrated by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), along with other similar measures…

June 18, 2021

Interviews

Investment and Decarbonization

A conversation on investment strategies for the green transition

, Tim Sahay, Adam Tooze, Daniela Gabor, Robert Hockett, Saule Omarova, Yakov Feygin

In late March, the Biden administration announced the $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, with approximately half of the sum dedicated to fighting the climate crisis. While the legislation would mark a sea change in federal action to avert climate catastrophe,…