Next week I will be presenting my Legislating in the Shadows project as part of a research roundtableat George Mason’s new Center for the Study of the Administrative State, which is directed by Neomi Rao. To mark the occasion, I thought I’d highlight Professor Rao’s terrific new article Administrative Collusion: How Delegation Diminishes the Collective […]

Last month over at Jotwell, Adrian Vermeule reviewed Administrative War by then-Stanford Law Professor and now-California Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuellar. Justice Cuellar’s article was published in the George Washington Law Review in 2014. Indeed, it was the foreword to the Law Review’s annual administrative law issue, which also included, among others, an article of mine […]

Here is the February 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 heading off to a symposium sponsored by the Missouri Law Review and organized by Erin Hawley, provocatively titled A Future Without the Administrative State?, […]

A lot of attention these days has been focused on prosecutorial discretion in the administrative law context—the scope of the Executive Branch’s authority to not enforce the law. We recently had a week-long online symposium about it in the immigration context, with a particular focus on the pending Supreme Court case challenging the Obama Administration’s […]

After an extended hiatus and by (somewhat) popular demand, I’m bringing back the weeklyAdministrative Law Bridge Series, which highlights terrific scholarship in administrative law and regulation to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in the regulatory state. I have a backlog of a few dozen pieces I’d love to highlight, and these reviews […]

Here is the January 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 . This is when things get a bit more exciting, as many scholars begin posting articles as part of the Spring law review submission cycle. […]

Next week I’m taking my newest project—Legislating in the Shadows—on the road with a law faculty workshop at UNLV on Monday (1/25), and another law faculty workshop at the University of Utah on Wednesday (1/27).* Thanks in advance to the law faculties at UNLV and Utah for reading the early draft of the paper and […]

As I previewed here, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) held its annual meeting in New York City last week, and there were a number of terrific panels and events on administrative law and regulation. I loved the AALS AdLaw Section’s panel on the regulatory/compliance curriculum as well as its annual New Voices Program—where […]

Here is the December 2015 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. Here’s the top ten: 1. Who Can Be President of the United States?: Candidate Hillary Clinton and the Problem of Statutory Qualifications by Seth Barrett […]

There is a lot of terrific administrative law and regulation programming at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City this week, so I thought I’d highlight the various panels and programs that may be of interest to scholars of administrative law and regulation (defined broadly). In addition to the official AALS programming, I’ve included […]

Albeit a little later than usual, here is the November 2015 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. Before turning to this month’s top ten list, it’s worth noting—especially for adlaw geeks who are interested in environmental […]

Last week the Michigan Law Review published in its online companion a short essay of mine—entitled Inside Regulatory Interpretation: A Research Note—which responds to Kevin Stack’s seminal article on regulatory interpretation Interpreting Regulations. Like Anne O’Connell’s article I reviewed for Jotwell earlier this month, Professor Stack’s article was chosen by the American Bar Association as […]

Here is the October 2015 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. Here’s the top ten: 1. Enforcement Discretion at the SEC by David T. Zaring (Texas Law Review forthcoming) [CJW: As I’d expect from anything Zaring writes, […]

Last week Jotwell—the Journal of Things We Like (Lots)—posted my review of Anne O’Connell’s terrific article Bureaucracy at the Boundary, which was published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review last year. I’m not alone in heaping praise on this article, as the American Bar Association just named it the best work of administrative law […]

Here is the September 2015 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 William Funk. Here’s the top ten: 1. Prosecutorial Constitutionalism by Eric S. Fish 2. Is the Chief Justice a Tax Lawyer? by Stephanie R. Hoffer and Christopher J. […]