Weekly Media Update

Week of December 19, 2025

William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Article of the Year

Congratulations to Sandy Mayson, who was named a recipient of the 2025 Legal History Article of the Year Prize by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation for “Bail at the Founding,” published in the Harvard Law Review. The article examines bail law in the Founding era through in-depth, empirical and archival study of statutes, legal treatises, magistrate manuals, and original records—including jail dockets, justice-of-the-peace records, and court records.

Data: Air Traffic Turmoil, Offshoring Optics, and AI’s Creativity Constraints

Gad Allon’s advice to airport decision-makers? “Treat a near-accident as an accident.” Allon emphasizes the need for a long-term solution to the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers, referencing incidents at Newark Liberty International Airport this past spring when numerous planes were essentially “flying blind” due to lack of staff as well as equipment issues.

The Real Cost of Knowledge Worker Attrition
12/15: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Iterative Compositional Data Generation for Robot Control
12/11: arXiv | Dani Bassett

ASCET Center of Excellence Announces Inaugural Advisory Board
12/11: ASCET Center of Excellence | Cary Coglianese

Who Should Regulate the Digital World? Research Insights From Dr. Cary Coglianese
12/11: Business Talk | Cary Coglianese

Blake Hall: Safeguarding Identity in the AI Era
12/11: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

2026 AI & Analytics Faculty Predictions
12/11: Wharton AI & Analytics | Kevin Werbach and Eric Bradlow

Best of 2025
12/9: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Trump Opens New Fronts in Federal Regulation Battle
12/9: Financial Times | Cary Coglianese

Data Centers in Space Aren’t as Wild as They Sound
12/9: Scientific American | Benjamin Lee

Kroger’s Retreat From Robotic Warehouses Reveals the Limits of Grocery Automation
12/8: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

The Electric Motor and the Drill - We Use AI in the Wrong Way
12/5: Konrad's Substack | Konrad Kording

Scientific Impact on Socially Beneficial Behaviors: Impact and Efficiency Evidence From Behavior Change Interventions
12/4: Social and Personality Psychology Compass | Dolores Albarracín

Impact of the 23andMe Bankruptcy on Preserving the Public Benefit of Scientific Data
12/4: Nature Genetics | Jonathan Moreno

Comparing Patterns of Recent Mental Health Service Use for Predicting Suicidal Events Following Emergency Department Mental Health Visits in the United States: A National Cohort Study
12/2: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Lyle Ungar

Estimating the Impact of Value Added Tax Exemptions on Smartphone Penetration in Colombia Using the Synthetic Control Method
12/2: Telecommunications Policy | Christopher Yoo

From Beliefs to Behavior: Clarifying the Roles of Attitudes and Context
12/1: Journal of Consumer Psychology | Dolores Albarracín

How Elite Business Schools Like Wharton Are Overhauling Curriculum as AI Reshapes Wall Street Bankers' Futures
12/1: Business Insider | Eric Bradlow

Scalable Distributed Nonlinear Control Under Flatness-Preserving Coupling
12/1: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

White Matter Bundle Reconstruction From Single-Shell Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Test-Retest Reliability and Predictive Capability Across Orientation Distribution Function Reconstruction Methods
12/1: Human Brain Mapping | Ted Satterthwaite

Efficiently Learning Branching Networks for Multitask Algorithmic Reasoning
11/30: arXiv | Edgar Dobriban

The End of an Era of Regulatory Independence?
11/24: The Regulatory Review | Cary Coglianese

How California’s New AI Law Seeks to Safeguard Children
11/19: This Week in Business | Kevin Werbach

Pursuing Regulatory Excellence in Today's Dynamic World
11/17: The Future-Proof Regulation Symposium | Cary Coglianese

The Last of the Independents? President Trump’s Assertion of Power to Remove Federal Agency Leaders
11/12: Penn Program on Regulation | Cary Coglianese

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