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106 Iowa L. Rev. 2107 (2020-2021)
The Future of Law and Transportation

handle is hein.journals/ilr106 and id is 2127 raw text is: The Future of Law and Transportation Gregory H. Shill' ABSTRACT: Law has played a substantial yet largely uncredited role in shaping, and suppressing, transportation policy debates. Transportation involves tradeoffs and competition for resources-for example, the determination of whose homes are connected by highways and whose destroyed. But it also involves clashes between a particular vision of comfort and convenience-the unimpeded, fast movement of automobiles-and a host offundamental policy goals, including public safety, racial justice, and climate action. Because legal rules often predetermine the outcome of these conflicts, law has the effect of codifying dubious decisions that were made during the early days of mass automobility and placing the results beyond ready contestation. This first-of-its-kind Symposium endeavors to open a legal literature on the past, present, and potential of transportation policy. The scholars who participated eschewed the fashionable transportation technology topics of the day and instead confronted essential and long-deferred legal policy questions. They considered these questions through the lens of multiple substantive areas of law, including land use, tax, traffic, vehicle design, consumer and public finance, and state and local government-all with keen sensitivity to economics, politics, race, and culture as reflected in the law. And in doing so, these legal scholars were joined by colleagues from disciplines where transportation scholarship is more established. This Issue features an astonishing array of scholarship on the future of law and transportation from some of today's most promising and distinguished scholars of the nascent subject. No scholarly field can trace its founding to a single publication, but it is hoped that this Issue will endure as a formative volume in the field of transportation law. We have gloated too much over the usefulness of the motor car to consider it in its other aspects as a dangerous menace to safety. We put it into reckless * Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law; Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Iowa College of Engineering National Advanced Driving Simulator; J.D., Harvard Law School; B.A., Columbia University. I wish to express my gratitude here to the Iowa Law Review both for its willingness to host a Symposium on a subject that has not received much attention in legal scholarship and for the extraordinary efforts of its editors in the very challenging circumstances of an ongoing pandemic. 2107

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