The Tobin Project seeks to facilitate an ongoing exchange of ideas between academics and policymakers that can motivate both better scholarship and better public policy. One example of this process is Tobin’s developing initiative on Preventing Capture, which aims to develop cutting-edge scholarship on the potential for limiting special interest influence in regulation. ;xNLx;;xNLx;In 2009, as the financial regulatory reform process gained steam, several scholars offered expertise developed through the Tobin Project’s Government & Markets research initiative to help confront emerging policy challenges related to regulation. While the scholars’ research informed new policy on systemic risk management and the design of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, policymakers continually raised one question: How can we protect new regulatory agencies from the threat of industry capture? ;xNLx;;xNLx;Tobin Project scholars, including Daniel Carpenter (Harvard University, Government), Steven Croley (University of Michigan Law School), and David Moss (Harvard Business School), offered guidance on the question of regulatory capture based on the latest research available, but recognized that contemporary scholarship has not offered adequate insight. To address this problem, Professors Carpenter, Croley, and Moss launched the Tobin Project’s Preventing Capture initiative, convening leading experts to produce an edited volume on how to design and reform regulatory agencies to better serve the public interest and to limit industry capture. ;xNLx;;xNLx;Guided throughout the research process by questions from policymakers, the research inquiry is again beginning to inform policy. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has worked with authors to ground the volume in real-world policy concerns and has incorporated author Susan Webb Yackee’s (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science and Public Affairs) research into a Senate bill that aims to prevent regulatory capture.