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 […]
Here is the March 2020 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is edited by Bill Funk. Delegation at the Founding by Julian Davis Mortenson & Nicholas Bagley (Columbia Law Review forthcoming) Presidential Review: The President’s Statutory Authority Over Independent Agencies by […]
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 […]
Here is the July 2020 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is edited by Bill Funk. Freerolls by Annie Duke & Cass R. Sunstein The Indecisions of 1789: Strategic Ambiguity and the Imaginary Unitary Executive (Part I) by Jed Handelsman Shugerman […]
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, […]
Kent Barnett, Emily Bremer, and I were thrilled to organize the Duke Law Journal‘s fiftieth annual administrative law symposium, entitled Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication. As I blogged about last month, the live symposium took place on Valentine’s Day, and the draft papers and video from the symposium are now available online. Here is the […]
Last week, Jeff Clark, the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), delivered a fascinating speech at the Case Western Reserve University’s Burke Center for Environmental Law. Video of his remarks is here. Among other things, Clark discussed Justice Department guidance he issued the week before concerning supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) […]
Government Personnel Committee Presents Latest Federal Sector Developments at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Office of Federal Operations” Thursday August 20, 2020 12 pm – 1:30 pm Eastern Time via Zoom Please join us for a discussion about the latest developments at the EEOC Office of Federal Operations, including a review of significant cases decided […]
As I blogged about earlier this week, the Administrative Conference of the United States, along with George Mason University’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Center for Progressive Reform, are hosting a four-part, virtual Symposium on Federal Agency Adjudication this month. On Tuesday, August 11th, from 2:00-3:30PM, I’ll be participating on the […]
In the Spring 2020 issue of Regulation magazine, Jonathan Adler and I have a short essay entitled Nondelegation for the Delegators. This essay previews our longer law-review article Delegation and Time, which is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review and was the subject of a terrific series over at The Regulatory Review earlier this month. […]
As part of my effort to identify online resources for teaching and learning administrative law, I thought I’d flag this post from Josh Blackman (and Randy Barnett). Their book Introduction to Constitutional Law is a great introduction and refresher to the main cases, and the accompanying videos are really engaging. The book, which comes with […]
As I blogged about back in February, the Hastings Law Journal hosted a terrific live symposium on February 21st (the last time I traveled anywhere outside central Ohio for work) on Administrative Law in the Age of Trump. The law journal editors were absolutely fantastic, and the print issue from that symposium has now been […]