Nationwide or universal injunctions continue to be a hot topic in administrative law and federal courts, with Sam Bray leading the charge (at least in the legal academy) to get rid of them — as I noted in a prior post. Mila Sohoni has come to the nationwide injunction’s defense, at least as a constitutional […]
Last week over at Jotwell, I reviewed a terrific new article by Tara Leigh Grove entitled Presidential Laws and the Missing Interpretive Theory, which is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here’s a snippet from my review: Although we spend some time on what then-Professor Elena Kagan coined “presidential administration” [in my 1L […]
Per the White House press release: Paul J. Ray of Tennessee, to be the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Paul J. Ray has served as the Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for the last six months and as Associate Administrator since […]
2019 Administrative Law Conference November 14-15, 2019 | Walter E. Washington Convention Center | Washington, DC We are excited to announce that the brochure for the 2019 Administrative Law Conference is now available!This year’s conference features 20 panels with 12.5 Hours CLE, including 1.5 hours of Ethics Credit, to be requested. View the 2019 Administrative […]
September has been busy, and I’m just barely getting this month’s post up before October begins. But there were a lot of great new administrative law papers in August! I wish I had time to include short annotations this month. Here is the August 2019 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the […]
From for the Federalist Society website, here are the details on this year’s Article I Initiative Writing Contest: The Nondelegation Doctrine: Intelligible Principle or Unworkable Standard? The Federalist Society’s Article I Initiative is focused on the critical issue of why the modern Congress is not functioning as the most powerful branch as envisioned by the […]
With the end of summer and start of classes, August has been a busy one. But here is the July 2019 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. The President’s Tax Returns by Andy Grewal The Solicitor […]
The Iowa Law Review just published a terrific symposium at the intersection of administrative law and patent law, to which I contributed an essay entitled Constitutional Tensions in Agency Adjudication. Here’s a snippet from the symposium’s introduction, penned by the faculty symposium organizer Jason Rantanen (footnotes omitted): The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) […]
From the American Constitution Society: To further its mission of promoting the vitality of the U.S. Constitution and the fundamental values it expresses — individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice, democracy and the rule of law — ACS is pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop on public law to […]
The Law and Political Economy Blog is hosting a really fascinating symposium entitled Democratizing Administrative Law. The symposium contributions are collected here. And here are links to the contributions published to date: Democratizing Administrative Governance: How the Civil Rights Movement Shaped Medicare’s Implementation, by David Barton Smith Reclaiming Notice and Comment, by Matthew Cortland & Karen Tani Critics […]
Rachel Potter’s new book Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy is an absolute must-read for those interested in agency rulemaking and in administrative law and regulatory practice more generally. As the title suggests, the book explores empirically and theoretically how agency officials — both career civil servants and political appointees — leverage procedural […]
The AALS Sections on Administrative Law and Legislation are pleased to announce their co-sponsored “New Voices in Administrative Law and Legislation” program for the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The New Voices program gives junior administrative law scholars and junior legislation scholars an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their work from more […]
Happy Hour | City Tap House – Dupont 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM 1250 Connecticut Ave NW | Washington, DC 20036 Join us this Friday in DC for the Section of Administrative Law Happy Hour event! Open to all section members, law student members, and anyone interested in connecting with your fellow Administrative Law colleagues […]
Over at Randy May’s Free State Foundation, I’ve posted a short essay that reviews the four major administrative law cases from this last Term and notes their potential implications for the FCC. Here’s the introduction: The October Term 2018 was a busy one for administrative law at the Supreme Court, but not for the Federal Communications […]
Earlier this week over at JOTWELL, Michael Herz reviewed Jennifer Nou’s latest work on bureaucratic resistance — Civil Servant Disobedience — which was just published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review as part of a terrific symposium Peter Strauss organized on administrative law in the Trump Administration. You can check out the full symposium issue here. Here’s […]