Next Thursday, May 2nd, the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State will be hosting a conference on the Hill entitled The Constitution’s First Branch⏤Rediscovering the Legislative Power. Jonathan Adler and I will be participating on the first panel to discuss our current project on Congress’s role in addressing the temporal issues involved in delegation.

This should be a terrific half-day conference. Here are the details on the conference, including the agenda and where to register:

Capitol Hill Conference: The Constitution’s First Branch⏤Rediscovering the Legislative Power

May 2, 2019

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Congress is the Constitution’s first branch of our government, but Congress no longer plays the lead role in formulating federal law and policy. How has Congress’s role in governance changed in recent decades? Why has it changed? And what can be done to restore Congress to its proper place at the center of our constitutional system?

On May 2, the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State will host a conference to discuss these questions, with an array of expert scholars and practitioners.

Agenda

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast, Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902

9:00 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. – Panel 1: The Constitution’s First Branch: Rediscovering the Legislative Power

Jonathan H. Adler, Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation and Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Sarah A. Binder, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution  

Christopher Walker, Associate Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University; and Director, The Moritz Washington, D.C. Summer Program

Philip A. Wallach, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute

Moderator: Adam J. White, Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and Assistant Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University 

10:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. – Break 

10:40 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. – Panel 2: How Does Central Party Control in Congress Affect the Legislative Process?

Frances E. Lee, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

James Wallner, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute

Moderator: Andrew Kloster, Deputy Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State

Additional Speakers Invited

11:55 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Lunch

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Panel 3: Rediscovering Congress’s Institutional “Ambition”

Christopher DeMuth, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute

Yuval Levin, Editor, National Affairs; and Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Moderator: Adam J. White, Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and Assistant Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Additional Speakers Invited

1:30 p.m. – Adjourn