I’m very excited to see SCOTUSblog teaming up with my amazing colleagues here at The Ohio State University that run the Election Law at Ohio State Program to launch a 2020 Election Litigation Tracker. Each election cycle Election Law at Ohio State has always been the place to go to get top-rate analysis, and I’m […]
The American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is seeking to hire a program specialist—a second administrator to help Section Director Anne Kiefer administer the programming of the Section. We are a great group of administrative lawyers and scholars, and Anne is terrific to work with. For more on the Section and […]
Over at the Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (Jowell), I have a short review of an important new report that the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) has issued on artificial intelligence and machine learning in the federal administrative state. This report, entitled Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies, was coauthored […]
As chair of the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, I am honored to invite you to attend the ABA’s 2020 Administrative Law Conference, which will take place virtually on Thursday and Friday, November 19-20, 2020. You can register for the full two-day program here (or Thursday only here, or Friday only here). […]
This webinar on Monday morning with EPA Administrator Wheeler looks fascinating. From the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project website: In May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a new proposed rule to “establish the procedures and requirements for how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will manage the issuance of guidance documents subject to the requirements of the […]
Through its Standing Committee on Election Law, the American Bar Association is partnering with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) to rally lawyers and law students to serve as poll workers in the upcoming 2020 election. More details are available here. The Poll Worker, Esq. […]
Lots of great new administrative law scholarship on SSRN this summer! Here is the August 2020 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. Rules, Commands and Principles in the Administrative State by Adrian Vermeule (Yale Law Journal […]
In August, the governing council of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice voted to confirm the nomination slate of new officers and council members, and the leadership transition became effective yesterday. I am very excited to chair the Section this year and to welcome the new leadership. I’d like to thank the […]
Yesterday Paul Ray, the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued guidance to all executive departments and agencies on implementing Executive Order 13,924 to improve and reform regulatory enforcement and adjudication. As I noted in February, OMB had issued a request for information […]
Here are the details: The Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Transportation, is looking for a dynamic executive to serve as the Assistant General Counsel for Regulation to direct the oversight, assessment, and review of the regulatory agenda of one of the largest Federal regulatory agencies. The Assistant General Counsel for Regulation provides […]
In our contribution to the 2021 Duke Law Journal administrative law symposium on Chevron deference, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and I make the case against Chevron deference in immigration adjudication, and we argue that the federal regulators should shift the default from adjudication to rulemaking to make major immigration policy at the agency level. Among other things, shifting […]
On Monday, August 31st, from 1-2:30PM, the ABA’s Judicial Division is hosting a webinar, cosponsored by the ABA’s Administrative Law Section, entitled Unfair Labor Practice Hearings Before the National Labor Relations Board: The Basics. CLE is available in most states, and you can register here. Here are some more details: New to presenting hearings before the […]
From the GSA Blog: GSA has launched a pilot to test a new application programming interface (API) to support better automated downloads from Regulations.gov, as well as enable a new API to support automated comment uploads. GSA manages Regulations.gov, a federal shared service that provides the public with one-stop access to regulatory and deregulatory actions […]
From the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy and the Notre Dame Law School Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion (call for papers here): Our national faith in the ethics of our leaders forms the very basis of our democracy. We elect leaders under the assumption that they will not only act […]
Tomorrow, August 19th, from 1-2:30PM, the ABA’s Young Lawyers’ Division is hosting a webinar, cosponsored by the ABA’s Administrative Law Section, entitled What Lawyers Need to Know About Agency Guidance. The webinar is free for ABA members, and you can register here. Here are some more details: Learn how Agency Guidance is created by client […]