Here is the December 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. This is the final edition for 2020, which has been a challenging year no doubt for so many scholars of administrative law and regulatory practice. […]
This year the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary this year, and the George Mason Law Review has organized a terrific symposium on the subject. I’ve posted to SSRN a draft of my contribution to the symposium, entitled The Lost World of the Administrative Procedure Act: A Literature Review (yes, inspired by one […]
As I first noted on the blog six years ago, the Administrative Law Section of JOTWELL—The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)—is a terrific resource for administrative law practitioners and scholars. JOTWELL’s Administrative Law Section publishes monthly a short review of a current piece of administrative law scholarship, usually authored by one of our contributing editors who are all leading […]
Yesterday the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) adopted a set of recommendations from my ACUS study (with Matt Wiener) on agency appellate systems, which embraces a number of best practices for improving internal agency review of hearing-level adjudications. Nothing too groundbreaking, and almost all (if not all) of which can be implemented by […]
Here is the November 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. Hayekian Behavioral Economics by Cass R. Sunstein Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion by Cass R. Sunstein Unrules by Cary Coglianese, Gabriel Scheffler & Daniel Walters […]
Over the last few years, I’ve been contemplating a book project that explores the world of agency action that is insulated from judicial review and what that phenomenon means for the field of administrative law and regulatory practice more generally. A couple years ago I scoped out the need for this project in an essay—Administrative […]
On the final day in November, I’m finally posting the October 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. Hayekian Behavioral Economics by Cass R. Sunstein Textualism and the Duck-Rabbit Illusion by Cass R. Sunstein Unrules by […]
Today at noon we will be livestreaming the ABA Administrative Law Section’s annual awards ceremony, where we hear from the winners of the scholarship and service awards. This session will be open to the public at this Zoom link at noon. The Free State Foundation, founded by former ABA Administrative Law Section Chair Randy May, […]
The week of the annual ABA Administrative Law Conference has arrived! This is the signature event of the ABA Administrative Law Section. Indeed, having grown up in Vegas where we always proclaim to have the biggest and best of everything, I’m tempted to say this is the biggest and best conference on administrative law held […]
For the last couple years, Matt Wiener, Vice Chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), and I have been working on an ACUS study of agency appellate systems. We’ve worked up detailed case studies on a dozen of the higher-volume appellate systems at the federal level and conducted countless interviews with current […]
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). […]
The University of Michigan Law School invites junior scholars to attend the 7th Annual Junior Scholars Conference, which will take place virtually on April 16-17, 2021. The conference provides junior scholars with a platform to present and discuss their work with peers, and to receive detailed feedback from senior members of the Michigan Law faculty. The Michigan Law journals […]
The American Constitution Society (ACS) is now accepting applications for the 2021 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition in Administration Law. Open to all lawyers and law students, this competition celebrates the legacy of the late Judge Cudahy by honoring academic writing focused on American regulatory or administrative law, broadly construed. This year’s judging panel […]
Per Professor Edward Richards (via the administrative law professor listserv), here is the letter: October 26, 2020 HON John McEntee Director, Presidential Personnel Executive Office of the President Mr. McEntee: This it to inform you that effective immediately, I hereby tender my resignation as Member and Chair of the Federal Salary Council. I do so […]
Panelists: Daniel Ortner, Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation Aaron Saiger, Professor of Law at Fordham University Adi Dynar, Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance Matthew R. Byrne, Of Counsel at Jackson Lewis Description: In the last few years, federal deference doctrines have received a lot of attention, especially with the Supreme Court’s […]