The ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice is pleased to announce its 2026 Spring Conference will again include a day of in-person academic paper workshops in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The workshops will provide the selected participants with an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their scholarly work. All are […]
New year, but these posts capture the month before. So here is the December 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, […]
Canada’s Bill C-11 modernizes the Broadcasting Act to capture online streaming but introduces severe regulatory ambiguity for internet protocol television (IPTV) services. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) now wields broad discretionary power over compliance and content discoverability. This regulatory uncertainty disproportionately affects smaller platforms and threatens to increase subscription costs and restrict content […]
In April 2025, the NYU Law Review and the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law hosted a terrific symposium entitled Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here? Just before the new year, the law review published that symposium issue in Volume 100. Andrew Hammond and I contributed an article from our empirical […]
Here is the November 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 October 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 […]
November 18, 2025, Update: AALS New Voices in Administrative Law seeks more senior commentators! We’ve received a bumper crop of submissions from junior scholars and need more senior commentators. The New Voices program is scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2026, from 4:10 to 5:25 p.m. at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans. If you’re able to join […]
The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is excited to announce that Professor Cass Sunstein will be keynoting the annual ABA Administrative Law Conference, this Friday, November 21st. His remarks will focus on the grand narrative in administrative law: For many decades, administrative law has been clouded, or perhaps haunted, by a Grand […]
Each year the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice hosts a signature conference on administrative law. Since we switched the annual conference online during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had more than 1,000 attendees at our annual conference. The vast majority of our attendees have been government attorneys. The protracted government shutdown has […]
On the Friday after the election last November, the Journal of Law Reform student editors and I convened scholars from across the country at the University of Michigan Law School to discuss the future of agency independence. The goal was to center our discussion on the traditional unitary executive debate and then look beyond statutory […]
From Timothy Lytton, Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Administrative Law Section: The executive committee of the AALS section on Administrative Law and the award selection committee are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Emerging Scholars Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication is Adam Crews for his article Visions of Vermont […]
Here is the September 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. This is a great mix of new and established voices in the field covering a wide range of topics in administrative law. For more on why SSRN and […]
A couple weeks ago I recorded a Gray Matters podcast with Jace Lington, which was a lot of fun. You can give it a listen here. The C. Boyden Gray Center is such a great resource in the field of administrative law. Here are the details from the Gray Center website: Jace Lington chats with […]
The November 20-21, 2025 Annual ABA Administrative Law Conference registration is now open! Please see the conference brochure for more information and a registration form. In view of current conditions, registration rates are significantly reduced. Individuals may register online. Groups should contact the service center – instructions are on the last page of the brochure. […]