Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Separation of Power Restoration Act, with even one Democrat voting in favor.* If enacted, the legislation would attempt to get rid of Chevron and Auer deference by amending the Administrative Procedure Act to instruct courts to “decide de novo all relevant questions of law, including the interpretation […]

Over at Jotwell, Linda Jellum reviews The Principle of Legality and a Common Law Bill of Rights – Clear Statement Rules Head Down Under by Daniel Meagher.* Here’s a summary of the paper from the SSRN abstract (the paper is available on SSRN here): This article traces the evolution in Australia of fundamental rights protection […]

As I mentioned in my AdLaw Bridge series post last week, I’m slowly catching up* on highlighting the Jotwell Administrative Law Section reviews from the last couple months as part of this series. Here is another terrific Jotwell review, this one by Mark Seidenfeld of Political Parties and Presidential Oversight by Michael Livermore, which was […]

Here is the May 2016 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. 1. The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost by Brian D. Galle 2. The Cycles of Separation-of-Powers Jurisprudence by Aziz Z. Huq and Jon D. Michaels (Yale […]

With several paper deadlines over the last two weeks (and next two weeks), the AdLaw Bridge Series has been a bit neglected.* But I wanted to quickly highlight a terrific article, which Jotwell has more fully reviewed. Last week over at Jotwell, Anne O’Connell reviewed FOIA, Inc. by Margaret Kwoka, which was published in the […]

As I blogged about back in February, Duke Law Journal‘s annual administrative law symposium this year is titled Intellectual Property Exceptionalism in Administrative Law. Video of February’s live symposium is available here. It was a terrific event, and draft papers were very thought provoking. Those papers were published earlier this month, and full issue is available here. […]

I’m guessing I’m not alone in looking at a pile of final exams to grade. In case you need a distraction (or a start on your summer reading list), here is the April 2016 edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is […]

As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, RegBlog is celebrating its fifth birthday with a special series looking back on the last five years in regulation. This RegBlog@5 Series has been a lot of fun so far, and it epitomizes RegBlog’s ability to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in the regulatory state. […]

Especially in light of my interest in immigration adjudication—where immigration judges are administrative judges and not administrative law judges—I was particularly excited to read an earlier draft of Kent Barnett’s Against Administrative Judges, which is forthcoming in the UC Davis Law Review. You can download a draft of the paper here, and here’s the abstract: […]

Two weeks ago, in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council, District Judge Rosemary Collyer (D.D.C.) sent waves through the financial services industry and among scholars of cost-benefit analysis. Relying in part on the Supreme Court’s decision last Term in Michigan v. EPA , the district court held that the FSOC violated the Administrative Procedure Act […]

Last week over at Jotwell, Richard  Murphy reviewed Auer in Action: Deference After Talk America byCynthia Barmore, which was published last year in the Ohio State Law Journal. Here’s a summary of the paper from the SSRN abstract (the paper is available on SSRN here): For decades, judges and commentators took for granted that courts should […]

Here is the March 2016 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. I’m guest-blogging over at PrawfsBlawg this month and on Monday we kick off a fantastic symposium here at Yale JREG on my co-blogger Peter Conti-Brown’s […]

Earlier this week the State Respondents filed their merits brief in United States v. Texas—the challenge to the Obama Administration’s executive actions on immigration the Supreme Court will hear in April. In light of this important case, it seems fitting to highlight a new article just published in the Iowa Law Review by former Attorney […]

Earlier this year my co-blogger Nick Bagley argued that there was “no harm, no foul” in the Obama Administration foregoing notice-and-comment rulemaking with respect to the executive actions on immigration. The Obama Administration provided notice, he argued, by “leak[ing] the proposal to the national media and [holding] a Rose Garden press conference.” The public had […]

The constitutionality of in-house adjudications by the Securities and Exchange Commission has beenin the news of late, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has made a number of recommendations to improve SEC adjudications, including that individuals and organizations be able to remove the SEC in-house adjudication to federal court. David Zaring has a great new […]