Greg Shill on the Past, Present, and Future of Transportation.

A law professor by day and also by night, Greg Shill has thoughts on what we've gotten wrong, how we got where we are, and what we can do in the next decade to ensure a better transportation system.

If you read the Atlantic and you have even a slight interest in transportation, you may have come across Greg Shill’s piece “Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It,” published in July 2019, when commuting was still a thing. Or, if you’re like me, and have a professional SSRN account, you may have seen his scholarship, and especially the inspiration for the Atlantic piece, “Should Law Subsidize Driving?” The answer, as you might deduce, is no.

Greg has built an impressive Twitter following in the last two years. He’s a law professor with over 5,000 users subscribed to read “aggressively medium” takes on how the United States’ byzantine legal system has caused Americans to drive more and more over the last few decades. Professor Shill isn’t the only advocate for legal reform, but he’s certainly become one of urbanist Twitter’s most fun follows to learn more about transportation law. That’s what you’re here for, anyway.