*This is the sixth post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. Bill Novak’s New Democracy, like his first book The People’s Welfare, is a characteristically learned, conceptually sophisticated, and expansive history of the American regulatory state. This time, however, […]
*This is the fifth post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. Novak’s New Democracy is a profoundly important new book about the rise of the modern American state written by a leader in the field. The book focuses our […]
*This is the fourth post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. In his chapter on antitrust law and the American antimonopoly tradition, the penultimate substantive chapter of the book, Novak covers much familiar ground. Yet, he is not focused […]
*This is the third post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. Bill Novak has written a remarkable book that debunks the myth that the American state was weak and unconcerned with providing for social welfare until it was transformed […]
*This is the second post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. Over six chapters, William J. Novak’s soon-to-be classic New Democracy tracks the evolution of six instrumentalities of the early 20th-century American state—citizenship, police power, public utility, social legislation, antimonopoly regulation, […]
*This is the first post in a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. Bill Novak’s New Democracy is a feast of a book and is a must read for anyone interested in administration and its history. The book stretches from the […]
*This is the introduction to a symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. For other posts in the series, click here. For a generation, William Novak has been a major influence on scholarly discourses in legal history, public law, and American political development. Against the stereotypical narrative that American government before […]
In January, the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, the field of administrative law, and the legal profession more generally lost an amazing leader, mentor, and colleague with the passing of University of Nebraska Law Professor Anna Shavers. I first got to know Anna well when I joined the governing council of the […]
When I heard that Professor Anna Shavers had passed, I was stunned. Anna was truly one of the kindest people I have ever met. She had an unmatched generosity of spirit and kindness. I first met Anna at the ABA Administrative Law Section’s fall meeting many years ago. She was interim dean of Nebraska College […]
Anna was a pioneer. A scholar of administrative and immigration law and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, Anna has a presence that was thoughtful, wise, and inclusive. I first met Anna while serving with the ABA Commission on Immigration. I was fortunate to watch her lead and spread her knowledge. Even from afar, […]
I wish I had known Anna Shavers better. In my limited interactions with her, she was always the epitome of kindness and consideration for others. Not long after I joined the University of Minnesota law faculty as a very junior scholar, I attended the American Bar Association’s fall administrative law conference. Anna sought me out […]
The members and staff of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) mourn the recent passing of Anna Williams Shavers, the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Professor Shavers was affiliated with ACUS for nearly nine years—first as a […]
This January we lost one of our former Section Chairs, Professor Anna Shavers. Anna embodied the spirit of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. Her death leaves a hole in the heart of the Section as well as a vacancy on the Council where her leadership always embraced the representation of diverse voices […]
On Saturday, February 12, 2022, 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 Anna Williams Shavers, Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, died on […]
The American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is honored to organize this collection of tributes to Anna Shavers. Unfortunately, our community lost Anna in January 2022. In remembrance and with great respect, I will begin this celebration of Anna’s influence and contributions by explaining her influence on my career. Talking about […]