Take a look at the award deadlines provided below to get detailed information about the requirements and guidelines. Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition Created in 2006, the Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Award Competition honors the memory of two men who left us too soon, Ernest Gellhorn, a distinguished law dean, administrative law professor, and […]
It looks like articles from the Spring 2024 law review submissions cycle are just starting to make it onto the list, and I’m excited to see what more appears in the coming months. Here is the February 2024 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, […]
It’s great that 2024 is leap year, so that I can still get the January edition of this series up before February ends. Here is the January 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 […]
The American Journal of Legal History has just published a special issue on “histories of executive power,” including a paper by Aaron Nielson and me entitled The Early Years of Congress’s Anti-Removal Power. These papers were first presented at a Stanford Constitutional Law Center conference, organized by Michael McConnell and Jed Shugerman, in May 2022. […]
When I first joined the legal academy (a dozen years ago), one of my first conferences in the field was the ABA Administrative Law Section’s annual conference, which is held in each fall. We’d gather together in Washington, DC, with more than five hundred administrative law geeks, including so many legal scholars. It was the […]
From the Federalist Society’s website: In his recent book Why Congress, Dr. Phillip Wallach covers the past, present, and future of the Legislative branch to help measure its modern level of dysfunction and offer suggestions for future restoration. The book traces how Congress was designed to operate, how it has met the challenges of decades past, […]
January has gone by quickly, but here is the December 2023 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 […]
Doctrinal Crossroads: Major Questions, Nondelegation & Chevron DeferenceThursday, January 25, 2024, at 8:15 a.m.-6:00 p.m. ESTLocation: Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 Join Pacific Legal Foundation and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy for our day-long law symposium, “Doctrinal Crossroads: Major Questions, Nondelegation & Chevron Deference.” The symposium will feature moderator-led discussions […]
At the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting in Washington, DC, this week, I’ll be moderating a terrific panel on the student loan cancellation cases the Supreme Court decided last term. The panel will take place on Thursday, January 4, 2024, from 4:45-6:30PM, and it will be livestreamed here. Here’s a description of […]
Since 2015, I’ve served as co-editor, currently with the brilliant Miriam Seifter, of the the Administrative Law Section of The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (“Jotwell”). Jotwell is a terrific resource for administrative law practitioners and scholars. Roughly once a month, Jotwell’s Administrative Law Section publishes a short review of a current piece of administrative law scholarship, usually […]
Here is the November 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 check […]
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has released a new report, by Ryan Young and Stone Washington, entitled Conflict of Justice: Making the Case for Administrative Law Court Reform. Here’s a taste of the report, from conclusion: Administrative law courts are unfair and regressive. They violate the separation of powers. They do not relieve regular court […]
Earlier this week I sat down with Eric Segall to participate in his Supreme Myths podcast. We chatted about about all things administrative law, including the major questions doctrine, the current cases (Loper Bright and Relentless) before the Supreme Court challenging Chevron deference, and SEC v. Jarkesy, the constitutional challenge the Court heard last week […]
With the Supreme Court hearing argument in SEC v. Jarkesy on Wednesday, a lot of focus will be on the three separate constitutional questions presented in the case: The Fifth Circuit answered all three questions in the affirmative, and I would be shocked if the Supreme Court agreed on all three. But it’s quite possible […]
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in SEC v. Jarkesy, a major constitutional challenge to the future of agency adjudication and enforcement. In an essay forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal, David Zaring and I set forth a way for the SEC, Congress, or maybe even the Supreme Court could save […]