*This is the first post in a symposium on the decisional independence of administrative adjudicators. For other posts in the series, click here. A confluence of factors has brought increased attention to the structural aspects of administrative adjudication, as reflected in this blog symposium. The long-held assumption that agencies would usually conduct adjudications pursuant to […]
*This is the introduction to a symposium on the decisional independence of administrative adjudicators. For other posts in the series, click here. In the 75 years since Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), administrative adjudication has slid slowly but inexorably into crisis. Myriad forces have combined to undo the statute’s most crucial component: its […]
I kick myself now. Had I understood the imminence of the deadline, maybe I could have concocted a way to cross paths with him sooner. But as things played out, I remained a distant admirer of Richard Parker for close to two decades and only got to experience his wit and charms in person during […]
*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. In Saving the Freedom of Information Act, Margaret Kwoka offers a deep empirical diagnosis of FOIA’s operational dysfunction. Her data make unmistakably clear that FOIA is falling far short of […]
I was shocked and truly saddened to learn that our colleague Richard W. Parker has passed away last fall. The American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative and Regulatory Law is so robust and so highly regarded in part because of members like Richard. One indicia of the regard the Section had for Richard is obvious, […]
*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s new book Saving the Freedom of Information Act substantially elevates the conversation surrounding the Freedom of Information Act and the administrative state by examining, in admirable detail, the […]
Editors’ Note: This post was originally published on October 11, 2021, but is reposted here as part of our series remembering Richard Parker. I am so deeply saddened to report that Professor Richard Parker from the University of Connecticut Law School passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, October 3, 2021. Like many, I first met Richard Parker at the […]
*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. In Lee’s Summit, located just outside Kansas City, Missouri, the federal government holds millions of immigration records in an old limestone mine known as “the Cave.” Margaret Kwoka visited the […]
Richard Parker was a passionate scholar, a dedicated teacher and a longstanding, loyal member of the Section. He was also my closest friend among the dozens of people I’ve gotten to know through the Section, a connection forged when we met at the first Section meeting either of us had ever attended, 20 years ago […]
*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. At the risk of reducing academic sub-fields to stereotypes, scholarship on open government laws in the legal academy appears to fall into two broad categories: administrative law scholars who associate […]
On November 20, 2021, the governing council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice approved the following resolution: WHEREAS our friend and colleague Richard Watson Parker, Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, passed away on October 3, 2021; WHEREAS Richard was a dear colleague and […]
Last October, the field of administrative law and the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice lost a dear friend and leader when University of Connecticut Law Professor Richard Parker passed away unexpectedly. Over the next couple weeks here on the Notice and Comment blog, we will publish a number of short posts remembering […]
*This is the fifth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka, again, hit it out of the park. With bases loaded. Kwoka outdid herself in “Saving the Freedom of Information Act” by going deeper into this subject than anyone […]
*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, is a game-changing piece of scholarship. The core of the book is an empirical study of who is using the […]
*This is the third post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka has written a masterful book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, which weaves together her pathbreaking empirical work with theory, doctrine, and practical policy proposals.* It is a […]