*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. Over the last month or so, it has been such a thrill to host two book symposia here at the blog—the first one on Peter Shane’s Democracy’s Chief Executive and now this one on […]
Here is the October 2022 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. The New Border Asylum Adjudication System: Speed, Fairness, and the Representation Problem by Philip G. Schrag, Jaya Ramji-Nogales & Andrew I. Schoenholtz (66 Howard Law Journal 3 (forthcoming 2023)) A Congressional Review Act for the Major […]
*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. For the first decade of my academic career, I shared an office wall with Peter Shane. As I have reminisced elsewhere, Peter’s mentorship (and […]
Join us for the annual ABA Administrative Law Conference! We have twenty substantive panels scheduled virtually over two days (December 1-2, 2022), with ability to watch and participate live in eight panels and then watch recordings of the other twelve panels on the virtual platform over the next month. The full schedule is available here, […]
Over the last year, Melissa Wasserman, Matt Wiener, and I have been studying the role of precedential decision making in federal agency adjudication for a project commissioned by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). As part of the study, we interviewed adjudicators and other officials in twenty agency adjudication systems. We just posted […]
Here is the September 2022 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. Testing Textualism’s ‘Ordinary Meaning’ by Tara Leigh Grove (90 George Washington Law Review 101 (2022)) The National Security Consequences of the Major Questions Doctrine by Timothy Meyer & Ganesh Sitaraman (Michigan Law Review forthcoming) Is Criminal Law Unlawful? by Paul […]
My colleagues Dan Deacon and Leah Litman have a new paper coming out in the Virginia Law Review, entitled The New Major Questions Doctrine, which explores and criticizes the Supreme Court’s decisions from last Term that created a clear-statement rule for statutory delegations to federal agencies to regulate issues of great political, policy, or economic […]
Education Committee of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Presents Reviewing the Department of Education’s Proposed Title IX Regulations Tuesday October 4, 2022 12 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern Time Via Zoom In June, the Department of Education proposed new Title IX regulations that will change how educational institutions nationwide respond to […]
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) will hold its confirmation hearing on the nomination of NYU Law Professor Ricky Revesz to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — a position which is been dubbed the President’s “regulatory czar.” Over at E&E News today, Jean Chemnick has a nice […]
The move from Ohio State to U Michigan this summer put the SSRN reading list series on hold. Now that things have settled down, the monthly post is back. And this month’s reading list coincidentally has a University of Michigan Law School theme to it, with papers by my colleagues Leah Litman, Dan Deacon, Julian […]
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Administrative Law is pleased to announce the “New Voices in Administrative Law” program for the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting, which will be held in person in San Diego. The New Voices program gives junior administrative law scholars an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their work […]
In January, the AALS Administrative Law Section recognized Benjamin Eidelson and Blake Emerson as co-recipients of its second annual Emerging Scholar Award. Nominations for this year’s award are due on September 30th. Self-nominations are welcome! Full-time faculty members without tenure at the time of the work’s publication, including those with fellowships, visiting assistant professorships, or similar positions, are eligible. To nominate someone, please send an anonymized version of their work to me, […]
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is seeking to hire an experienced, senior-level attorney advisor at the GS-13 or GS-14 level. The ideal candidate would have at least two years of experience working as an attorney in a setting requiring them to independently manage a portfolio of projects and possess a demonstrative academic or professional […]
From the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (registration here): Benefit-Cost Analysis for U.S. Regulations co-sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Benefit-cost analysis is used around the world to assess regulatory impacts. This workshop introduces the use of Benefit-Cost Analysis for Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) in the Federal government. The topics will include issues of identifying […]
*This is the ninth 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. It’s a privilege to participate in this symposium on William Novak’s important new book New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. New Democracy is an engaging, […]