Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Administrative Subordination” by Professor Bijal Shah, which is forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review. Here is the abstract: Much of the work on immigration enforcement and environmental justice assumes that agencies negatively impact vulnerable marginalized people as a result of individualized bias or arbitrariness in administration. […]

Today, Ad Law Reading Room brings you “Power Corrupts” by Professor Emily Bremer. Here is the abstract: Administrative agencies bear principal responsibility for keeping the federal government’s promises by giving effect in the real world to the laws Congress enacts. If administrative law’s goal was to help agencies fulfill this responsibility, its lodestar would be […]

Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Legitimizing Agencies” by Professor Brian Feinstein, which is forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review. Here is the abstract: The project of bolstering the administrative state’s perceived legitimacy is central to administrative law. To enhance agencies’ legitimacy with the public, generations of judges and scholars have variously […]

Welcome back to the Ad Law Reading Room, where we highlight recent scholarship in administrative law and related fields. Today’s entry is “Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief: Myers and the Progressive Presidency” by Professors Andrea Katz and Noah Rosenblum, which is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review. Here is the abstract: In a series of recent cases, […]

Welcome to the Ad Law Reading Room, a new series here at Notice and Comment that will highlight recent scholarship in administrative law and related fields. Today’s article is “Executive Capture of Agency Decisionmaking” by Professor Allison M. Whelan, which was recently published by the Vanderbilt Law Review and posted to SSRN. Here is the […]