From the Federalist Society website: The Eighth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference is being transformed into a virtual Executive Branch Review Week of events. Executive Branch Review Webinar PanelsTuesday, April 28 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. EDTRestoring the Executive Power: Revisiting Humphrey’s Executor, Reviving the Unitary Executive 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDTRestoring Judicial Power: Righting […]

Here are the details: The Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Transportation, is looking for a dynamic executive to serve as the Assistant General Counsel for Regulation to direct the oversight, assessment, and review of the regulatory agenda of one of the largest Federal regulatory agencies.  The Assistant General Counsel for Regulation provides […]

From the Library of Congress and American Bar Association: The Law Library of Congress and the American Bar Association will present the Law Day 2020 program, “Social Movement Changing America: The Legacies of the 19th Amendment” on Thursday, April 30 at 3:30 p.m. EDT. The event will be held online. Click here to register! Law […]

On Monday, August 31st, from 1-2:30PM, the ABA’s Judicial Division is hosting a webinar, cosponsored by the ABA’s Administrative Law Section, entitled Unfair Labor Practice Hearings Before the National Labor Relations Board: The Basics. CLE is available in most states, and you can register here. Here are some more details: New to presenting hearings before the […]

From the GSA Blog: GSA has launched a pilot to test a new application programming interface (API) to support better automated downloads from Regulations.gov, as well as enable a new API to support automated comment uploads. GSA manages Regulations.gov, a federal shared service that provides the public with one-stop access to regulatory and deregulatory actions […]

From the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy and the Notre Dame Law School Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion (call for papers here): Our national faith in the ethics of our leaders forms the very basis of our democracy. We elect leaders under the assumption that they will not only act […]

Tomorrow, August 19th, from 1-2:30PM, the ABA’s Young Lawyers’ Division is hosting a webinar, cosponsored by the ABA’s Administrative Law Section, entitled What Lawyers Need to Know About Agency Guidance. The webinar is free for ABA members, and you can register here. Here are some more details: Learn how Agency Guidance is created by client […]

For a half dozen years or so, I’ve had the privilege of directing my law school’s Washington, DC, summer program. Each summer we place about twenty students (mostly rising 2Ls) in our DC summer program—usually in unpaid internships and most often at federal agencies, on the Hill, and at non-profits. As part of the summer […]

Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice held a Summit on Modernizing the Administrative Procedure Act. I had the privilege of participating on one of the panels. Today the Justice Department issued a 129-page report from the summit, which includes remarks from a number of Justice Department officials, the transcript from the panels, and various […]

Below are two announcements from Kent Barnett concerning the American Association of Law Schools Administrative Law Section’s programming for the AALS 2021 Annual Meeting: (1) the dates and times for our two programs, and (2) a request for nominations for our Emerging Scholar Award.   Section Programming Section Meeting: 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EST, […]