The federal government has conducted 23 decennial censuses. The 2020 census will be the 24th. You can complete the 2020 census here using the 12-digit code you should have received in the mail. If you do not have your code, you can still complete the census! Conducted in the shadow of coronavirus, this census will […]
For a half dozen years or so, I’ve had the privilege of directing my law school’s Washington, DC, summer program. Each summer we place about twenty students (mostly rising 2Ls) in our DC summer program—usually in unpaid internships and most often at federal agencies, on the Hill, and at non-profits. As part of the summer […]
Kent Barnett, Emily Bremer, and I were thrilled to organize the Duke Law Journal‘s fiftieth annual administrative law symposium, entitled Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication. As I blogged about last month, the live symposium took place on Valentine’s Day, and the draft papers and video from the symposium are now available online. Here is the […]
Last week, Jeff Clark, the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), delivered a fascinating speech at the Case Western Reserve University’s Burke Center for Environmental Law. Video of his remarks is here. Among other things, Clark discussed Justice Department guidance he issued the week before concerning supplemental environmental projects (SEPs) […]
In the Spring 2020 issue of Regulation magazine, Jonathan Adler and I have a short essay entitled Nondelegation for the Delegators. This essay previews our longer law-review article Delegation and Time, which is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review and was the subject of a terrific series over at The Regulatory Review earlier this month. […]
As part of my effort to identify online resources for teaching and learning administrative law, I thought I’d flag this post from Josh Blackman (and Randy Barnett). Their book Introduction to Constitutional Law is a great introduction and refresher to the main cases, and the accompanying videos are really engaging. The book, which comes with […]
It’s no surprise that in today’s post Administrative Law SSRN Reading List, February 2020 Edition, Julian Mortenson and Nick Bagley’s forthcoming Columbia Law Review article Delegation at the Founding topped the charts, with more than 1,300 downloads. This is an important article that has the potential to reshape the debate on the nondelgation doctrine. One […]
Here is the February 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. Lots of great scholarship for us to read during these social-distancing days! Delegation at the Founding by Julian Davis Mortenson & Nicholas Bagley (Columbia Law […]
Especially during this time of social distancing and online teaching and learning, I thought I’d flag a few resources for learning administrative law online. In this post, I highlight the terrific resources the Federalist Society has produced in recent years. In the coming days and weeks, I will publish additional posts on other online resources, […]
In response to the General Services Administration’s request for comment on its initiative to modernize regulations.gov, the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice filed the following comment on March 20, 2020: On behalf of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association (the Section), I write […]
This comes as no surprise, but here is the official notice from the ABA AdLaw Section Chair Linda Jellum regarding our 2020 Spring Conference, which had been scheduled for early May: Dear Administrative Law Section Members, Panel Presenters and Attendees of the Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Institute, Thank you for your continued participation in […]
Over the last two weeks, the Regulatory Review has hosted a series on Jonathan Adler and my forthcoming Iowa Law Review article Delegation and Time. The series homepage is here, and here are the summaries and links to each contribution: Reviving Congress’s Ambition March 02, 2020 | Jonathan H. Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of […]
In a new article forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal, Aaron Nielson and I explore the answer(s) to this question. Here’s the abstract: Qualified immunity is increasingly controversial. But the debate about it is also surprisingly incomplete. Both qualified immunity’s critics and defenders have for too long overlooked the doctrine’s federalism dimensions. Yet federalism is […]
Last week more than twenty Republican Senators sent a letter to President Trump, encouraging the Administration to extend centralized review done by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to significant regulatory actions by independent agencies. Here’s the text of the letter (footnotes omitted): We write to thank you for your leadership in reducing […]