I’m a little late this month with this post, but here is the February 2023 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. Perhaps not surprisingly, there are quite a few papers this month exploring various aspects of the Supreme Court’s […]
On Wednesday, March 16th, at 1:30, the American Bar Association has organized an hour-long CLE webinar on the major questions doctrine. Tom Dupree and I will be discussing the doctrine and its implications for the administrative state, with Cheyenne Chambers moderating. It’s free for ABA members, and you can register here. Here’s the webinar description: […]
The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis will hold its annual meeting in-person on March 9-10 and online on March 13-14. As in the past, there are many sessions pertaining to the use of benefit-cost analysis in regulation and regulatory decision making that those who study administrative law will find useful. Those include: Regulatory Policy in the United States: […]
The Nominations Committee of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is seeking nominations, including self-nominations, to fill leadership positions on the Section’s governing council. We will start considering nominations on March 6, 2023, but we will continue to consider additional nominations on a rolling basis through the middle of March. A simple […]
Join us for a free webinar sponsored by the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice on the impact of ChatGPT and other A.I. technologies on public comments in rulemaking on Friday, March 3, 2023, 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern Time via Zoom. Register for free here. Program Description ChatGPT and other technologies using large language models […]
It’s a new year, and we have lots of new papers in administrative law to read! And we should expect many more with the February law review submission cycle just starting. Here is the January 2023 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is […]
On Monday, the Notre Dame Law Review hosted a terrific symposium on the history of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The videos of the panels and keynote are available here. For my contribution to the symposium issue, I’m attempting to sort out the various approaches to APA interpretation. I’ve posted to SSRN a draft of […]
On Monday, the Notre Dame Law Review hosted a terrific live symposium entitled the History of the Administrative Procedure Act and Judicial Review. It was such a terrific event, and I learned a lot. The editors have posting the video recordings of the panels on the law review’s YouTube channel here. Here are the panel […]
On Thursday, February 8, 2023, there’s a terrific law review symposium in Washington, DC, on democratic accountability in the administrative state. Shoba Wadhia and I will be presenting our new working paper on democratic accountability and modes of regulatory policymaking. Definitely join us if you’re in DC and have time. Here are the details from […]
At its plenary session in December, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) voted to adopt a recommendation to improve precedential decision making in agency adjudication. This recommendation is based on my report with Melissa Wasserman and Matt Wiener entitled Precedential Decision Making in Agency Adjudication. Last week, those recommendations were published in the […]
Last week at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in San Diego, the Federalist Society hosted its annual faculty division debate, this year on whether the major questions doctrine has no place in statutory interpretation. I had the privilege of moderating, which was a lot of fun. Here’s the video […]
Delivered today at the Symposium on Central Bank Independence, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden, and posted in full here: I will address three main points. First, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy independence is an important and broadly supported institutional arrangement that has served the American public well. Second, the Fed must continuously earn that independence by […]
It’s a new year, and we have a first with the SSRN Administrative Law Reading List series: There are only *seven* papers in the normal top ten. Weird. Maybe Professor Sohoni’s amazing paper on the major question doctrine counts as four papers? In all events, here is the December 2022 Edition of the most-downloaded recent […]
This coming week is the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in San Diego. I will be there from Thursday through Saturday, and I hope to catch up those who will be attending. The administrative law programming at the AALS annual meeting looks terrific. Here’s a list of the programming that […]
Since 2015, I’ve had the privilege of serving as co-editor, currently with the brilliant Miriam Seifter, of the the Administrative Law Section of The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (“Jotwell”). As I first noted on the blog eight years ago, Jotwell is a terrific resource for administrative law practitioners and scholars. Roughly once a month, Jotwell’s Administrative Law Section […]