We are delighted to announce the schedule for the 2026 Academic Paper Workshops which will be held during the 2026 Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s Spring Conference on Thursday, May 7 in Washington D.C. The presentation themes, paper titles, presenters, and commenters are below.

The academic workshops feature new papers discussed by Authors and Commenters; audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions. The academic papers are the property of the individual authors and will not be distributed as most are works in process. We sincerely appreciate the outstanding authors and commenters sharing their work and making these discussions useful and interesting for attorneys practicing in any area of law.

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Spring 2026 Paper Workshops

9 – 10:15 a.m. Academic Workshops

Room 1: Humphrey’s Demise

• Commenter: Ron Levin
• Presenter: Emily Bremer
• Paper Title: Administrative Law After Humphrey’s Executor
• Presenter: David Froomkin
• Paper Title: The Death of Administrative Law

Room 2: Federal Supremacy

• Commenter: Jennifer Selin
• Presenter: Laura Dolbow
• Paper: Patent Preemption Exceptionalism
• Presenter: Jonathan Skinner-Thompson
• Paper Title: Air Permit Adjudications

10:30 – 12:15 p.m. Academic Workshops

Room 1: Presidential Power Grabs

• Commenter: Zachary Price
• Presenters: Elena Chachko, Kathleen Claussen, David Zaring
• Paper Title: Presidential Misadministration
• Presenter: Joel Michaels
• Paper Title: The Lost Power of Purse
• Presenter: David Rubenstein
• Paper Title: The Pretext Presidency

Room 2: Losing Independence

• Commenter: Emily Bremer
• Presenter: Fred Jacob
• Paper: Zones of Independence at the NLRB after Humphrey’s Executor
• Presenter: Jill Family
• Paper Title: The Sky is Falling: Immigration Law and Agency Adjudicator Independence

Room 3: The Judicial Role

• Commenter: David Froomkin
• Presenter: Brandon Duke
• Paper: The Judicial Administrative Era
• Presenter: Haodi Dong
• Paper Title: Partners or Antagonists? Judicial Review and Agency Policymaking Under Uncertainty

Room 4: Experts and Watchdogs

• Commenter: Renée Landers
• Presenter: Andrew Stawasz
• Paper: What Benefit-Cost Analysis Does
• Presenter: Amy Gaudion
• Paper Title: Unleashing the Watchdogs
• Presenter: Joseph Daval
• Paper Title: Agency Accountability and Expert Advice

1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Academic Workshops

Room 1: Removal History

• Commenter: Nick Parrillo
• Presenter: Christine Chabot
• Paper Title: The Interstitial Executive: A View from the Founding
• Presenters: Jane Manners, Lev Menand
• Paper Title: The Power to Remove for Cause

Room 2: Fairness & Justice

• Commenter: Shalini Ray
• Presenter: Bijal Sha
• Paper: Building a Protective Administrative Law Framework
• Presenter: Con Reynolds
• Paper Title: Commissioned Democrary: Framing a New Era of Federal Sentencing

Room 3: Agency Abnegation

• Commenter: Daniel Walters
• Presenter: Brian Lipshutz
• Paper: Administrative Self-Constitutionalism
• Presenter: Danielle Copes
• Paper Title: Implementation Ossification and the Forgotten Borrowers

Room 4: Problems of Adjudication

• Commenter: Jill Family
• Presenter: Alexander Adams
• Paper: Seventh Amendment’s Law-Equity Mandate and Ahistorical Test
• Presenter: Meghan Brooks
• Paper Title: Policy by Pattern of Nonprecedential Decision in Mass Agency Adjudication

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Academic Workshops

Room 1: Notions of Independence

• Commenter: Daniel Deacon
• Presenters: Beau Baumann, Jed Handelsman Shugerman
• Paper Title: Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition
• Presenters: Ben Cavataro, Todd Phillips
• Paper Title: Commissioners

Room 2: Informal Agency Action

• Commenter: Christopher Walker
• Presenter: Shalini Ray
• Paper: The Advisory State
• Presenter: Noah Marks
• Paper Title: Lingering Proposed Regulations

Room 3: Local Governments in Action

• Commenter: Laura Dolbow
• Presenter: Alexis Abboud
• Paper: Foundering Contracting States
• Presenter: Jennifer Selin
• Paper Title: Happy Together? Intergovernmental Partnerships in Federal Administration

Room 4: Use and Control of Information

• Commenter: David Rubenstein
• Presenter: Charles K. Eldred
• Paper: The Administrative Law of Federal Government Censorship
• Presenter: Emile Katz
• Paper Title: Who Should Control Government Information
• Presenters: Shayak Sarkar & Josh Rosenthal
• Paper: Deputized Data