{"id":2471,"date":"2025-03-21T20:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-22-special-issue\/university-governance-as-a-principle-agent-problem\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:27","slug":"university-governance-as-a-principle-agent-problem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-22-special-issue\/university-governance-as-a-principle-agent-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"University Governance As a Principle-Agent Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">My work has always taken its cue from an ancient moral question: <span class=\"s1\">\u201c<\/span>how to live<span class=\"s1\">\u201d <\/span>as Plato put it. I call that a question of self-governance to mark it as potentially continuous with topics of corporate self-governance in general and university governance in particular. Since university governance manifestly is a hot topic, I will pause from time to time to reflect on what my colleagues in this symposium are saying about current events, but my focus is on self-governance, including how universities govern themselves, and on what is illuminated by treating self-governance as a principal-agent problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/GT-GLPP240050.pdf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work has always taken its cue from an ancient moral question: \u201chow to live\u201d as Plato put it. I call that a question of self-governance to mark it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10127,"featured_media":0,"parent":2421,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions\/2589"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}