We have begun the development of panels for the 2025 ABA Administrative Law Conference, which will be held virtually again on November 20-21, 2025. This is a great way to share your research and expertise with around 1,000 regulatory lawyers and scholars. We expect to have twenty panels on various topics. In particular, we would like […]

There have been quite a few really terrific new administrative law papers posted to SSRN over the last few months, adding to my summer reading list. My SSRN reading list posts capture some of them, but my colleague Dan Deacon also features some in more depth each month as part of his Ad Law Reading […]

Here is the April 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 March 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 […]

On Thursday May 8, 2025, in Washington, DC, the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is hosting a terrific scholarship conference that will feature paper presentations and commentary by distinguished scholars, as well as a late afternoon reception welcoming the Section’s Fellows, Leaders, and Award Winners. The conference brochure is here, and the […]

How Is Trump 2.0 Reshaping the Administrative State? A webinar sponsored by the Penn Program on Regulation Weds., March 263:00-4:30 p.m. EDTVia Zoom Since assuming office in January, the Trump Administration has taken unprecedented actions involving federal agencies. He has asserted presidential power over the functioning of independent agencies, taken steps to dismantle certain agencies […]

Here is the February 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 […]

The Duke Law Journal invites papers for its 56th Annual Administrative Law Symposium, to be held in spring 2026 at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. Papers can be submitted through Duke Law Journal’s Scholastica portal and will be considered on a rolling basis. We are considering all pieces in the field […]

I’m so excited that the University of Michigan Law School will be hosting the Federalist Society’s 44th annual student symposium here in Ann Arbor on March 7-8, 2025. The symposium theme is Congress: Reviving the Impetuous Vortex, and the program is going to be terrific. You are welcome to join us on in person or […]

The ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice is pleased to announce its 2025 Spring Conference will again include a day of in-person academic paper workshops at the Royal Sonesta Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 8th, 2025. The workshops will provide the selected participants with an opportunity to receive useful feedback […]

Here is the January 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 December 2024 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 University of Michigan Law School is very pleased to host the Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 19-20, 2025. For the past nine years, the Roundtable has offered administrative law scholars an excellent opportunity to get feedback on their work from distinguished scholars in a collaborative setting. Approximately twelve authors will […]

Today the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus curiae brief in support of neither party in FCC v. Consumers’ Research, articulating a proportional approach to the nondelegation doctrine. Here’s the start of the argument: The Constitution vests the Legislature with discretion in making policy and vests the Executive with discretion in executing the law. […]

With 2024 coming to a close, I’m posting the November list now and will post the December list right after the new year. Here is the November 2024 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 […]