On April 11, 2025, the NYU Law Review and the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law will host a full-day symposium that will explore Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?

The symposium will feature a keynote address from Ricky Revesz, currently the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and AnBryce Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at NYU Law. Confirmed panelists and moderators include Kent Barnett, Sharon Block, Lisa Bressman, Daniel Ernst, Joanna Grisinger, Kristin Hickman, David Kamin, Sally Katzen, Anita Krishnakumar, Thomas Merrill, Gillian Metzger, Julian Mortenson, Nick Parillo, Eloise Pasachoff, K. Sabeel Rahman, Noah Rosenblum, Bijal Shah, Ganesh Sitaraman, Christopher Walker, and Katrina Wyman. In addition to the keynote address, the symposium will cover four timely topics in administrative law. 

First Panel: Creative Destruction
This panel will explore the immediate near term for administrative law. What can we expect to emerge from this period of instability in administrative law? What will the next ten years look like? Can we expect a “return to the mean” and, if so, what is the “mean”? For those wary of recent developments, are there silver linings in otherwise dark clouds? Is this just the beginning of a more radical transformation of American administrative law? What can, should, or will Congress do about these developments? Lower courts? Other actors?

Second Panel: Building on a Clean Slate
This panel will explore the administrative law ideal. If it were possible to go back to square one, what would administrative law (or even just judicial review of agency action) look like? What does that thought exercise reveal about contemporary debates in administrative law? What does that thought exercise reveal about the direction administrative law can or should take from here?

Third Panel: Lessons from History
This panel will explore lessons we can learn from the past. What can we learn from previous periods of flux in administrative law, including the period covered in Dick Stewart’s seminal article, The Reformation of American Administrative Law? How are those periods similar to or different from today? Are there dusty doctrines or canons that should or will see new life given recent developments?

Fourth Panel: Eye of the Beholder
This panel will explore how recent developments in administrative law may affect different groups or different areas of law differently. Do all left-leaning groups view recent developments in administrative law the same way? Do all right-leaning groups? Do these divergent perspectives shed light on a more nuanced approach to administrative law? In particular, do the recent developments affect immigration and criminal law differently than energy and environmental law? Where does tax fit into the picture? 

The NYU Law Review will publish a special symposium print issue several months after the symposium along with pieces in NYU Law Review Online. 

More details will be posted in the coming weeks at https://policyintegrity.org/news/events.

This Symposium was brought to Notice & Comment’s attention by Donald L. R. Goodson, Deputy Director, Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law.