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 […]
Here are the details and links to this terrific symposium, from the Chicago-Kent Law Review website: Vol. 94, Issue 2 The Trump Administration and Administrative Law SYMPOSIUM EDITOR Peter L. Strauss Columbia Law School Table of Contents Live Symposium Articles Preface Peter L. Strauss, Columbia Law School 94 Cʜɪ.-Kᴇɴᴛ L. Rᴇᴠ. 229 (2019) Prosecutors at the Periphery […]
This Term, in Gundy v. United States, the Supreme Court once again considered whether a statutory grant of authority (here, under the Sex Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act) to a federal agency or executive branch official (here, the Attorney General) violates the nondelegation doctrine. As students of administrative law know, the Court has interpreted […]
Here is the June 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. Sludge Audits by Cass R. Sunstein The President’s Tax Returns by Andy Grewal Antidiscrimination Laws and the Administrative State: A Skeptic’s Look at Administrative Constitutionalism […]
These two ABA AdLaw Section brownbags look terrific and timely: Summer Brown-Bag Series Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Regulatory Policy Committee Please join us Wednesday July 24th, 12:00-1:30 PM ET for the Regulation of Social Media? teleconference. Today’s laws and regulations do not address some of the challenges of social media. The United […]
This has been such a busy month on the administrative law front, with the end of the Supreme Court’s Term producing a lot of material for future law review articles. In case you missed it, I posted on SCOTUSblog the opinion analysis for PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic (the Hobbs Act case) and on this blog […]