The George Washington Law Review invited me to pen the foreword to its annual administrative law issue this year, and I decided to use the opportunity to think a bit bigger about the future of administrative law. I’ve posted to SSRN a draft of that foreword, entitled Proportionality in Administrative Law. I’m honored to share […]
Several years ago, Anna Shavers and Matt Wiener agreed to put together an edited volume on the leading cases in administrative law. The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice assembled a case selection committee and then invited nearly forty scholars in the field to contribute a chapter. During the editing process, my dear […]
The ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s Spring Conference will feature these hot-topic CLE programs on Friday, May 8: Join us in Washington, D.C., for these programs and academic workshops featuring new articles presented on Thursday, May 7. Registration fees for the conference are as follows: For full details and registration, visit here.
Aaron Nielson and I have posted to SSRN a draft of a new paper, entitled Article II and the Civil Service, which is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Here’s the abstract: The federal government employs more than two million civil servants. Most are hired through a competitive process centered on competence and cannot be […]
Here is the January 2026 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. For more on why SSRN and this eJournal are such terrific resources for administrative law scholars and practitioners, check out my first post on the subject here. You can […]
The ABA Administrative Law Section is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for four section council member seats that will open beginning August 2026. Nominees must already be members of the Administrative Law Section. If you join the Section now, you will be eligible for nomination in 2027. Section council members serve a three-year term. The Section […]
The ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice is pleased to announce its 2026 Spring Conference will again include a day of in-person academic paper workshops in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The workshops will provide the selected participants with an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their scholarly work. All are […]
New year, but these posts capture the month before. So here is the December 2025 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. For more on why SSRN and this eJournal are such terrific resources for administrative law scholars and practitioners, […]
In April 2025, the NYU Law Review and the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law hosted a terrific symposium entitled Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here? Just before the new year, the law review published that symposium issue in Volume 100. Andrew Hammond and I contributed an article from our empirical […]
Here is the November 2025 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. For more on why SSRN and this eJournal are such terrific resources for administrative law scholars and practitioners, check out my first post on the subject here. You can […]
Here is the October 2025 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. For more on why SSRN and this eJournal are such terrific resources for administrative law scholars and practitioners, check out my first post on the subject here. You can […]
November 18, 2025, Update: AALS New Voices in Administrative Law seeks more senior commentators! We’ve received a bumper crop of submissions from junior scholars and need more senior commentators. The New Voices program is scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2026, from 4:10 to 5:25 p.m. at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans. If you’re able to join […]
The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is excited to announce that Professor Cass Sunstein will be keynoting the annual ABA Administrative Law Conference, this Friday, November 21st. His remarks will focus on the grand narrative in administrative law: For many decades, administrative law has been clouded, or perhaps haunted, by a Grand […]
Each year the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice hosts a signature conference on administrative law. Since we switched the annual conference online during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had more than 1,000 attendees at our annual conference. The vast majority of our attendees have been government attorneys. The protracted government shutdown has […]