Greg Shill on Transportation in Rural America (video)
Professor Greg Shill (Iowa Law) shared the third seminar in our 2021-2022 Rural Reconciliation Project program series on RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE with a focus on TRANSPORTATION. His talk, Transportation and the Law, can be viewed here:
More information about the whole series here. Event summary coming soon.
bio
Professor Greg Shill (Iowa Law) is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. His expertise extends across diverse interest areas but includes transportation, law and economic geography, and the future of cities particularly. Professor Shill serves on a state automated vehicle advisory committee and is also a member of the Road to Zero Coalition, a joint project of the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Safety Council to eliminate traffic deaths. He speaks regularly in policy forums, and his commentary has been widely published in academic and journalistic features.
prior work
Professor Shill has written extensively about transportation law and policy, including in the articles and essays compiled here. With Jeff Lin, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Professor Shill also hosts the podcast Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law.
For an accessible introduction to one example of Professor Shill’s work, the Project has previously digested his article on how the law privileges driving (and why, and how, this matters) here:
