Save the Date! 2020 Spring Conference | May 8, 2020 | Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City | Arlington, VA Join us on Friday May 8 for a specially designed one-day program with distinguished faculty covering the ‘101 Essentials’ of Rulemaking, and ‘102’ sessions covering Adjudications, and Agency Guidance. Topics will include: Rulemaking 101: The Rulemaking Process, Rulemaking […]

This Friday, February 21st, the Hastings Law Journal will be hosting an administrative law symposium, and a number of our regular bloggers will be participating. You can register for the conference here. Here are the details from the Journal: Join Hastings Law Journal for our annual symposium at UC Hastings College of the Law. This year, we […]

Last Term I covered PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic Inc. for SCOTUSblog. The question presented in PDR Network was whether the Hobbs Act strips district courts of jurisdiction to reconsider the validity of an agency’s legal interpretation of certain statutes. As I explained in my opinion analysis post, the Court ultimately dodged […]

2020 ABA AdLaw Section Awards   “Award Season” is just getting started! Nominate a colleague, or submit your work for one of the ABA AdLaw Section’s annual awards. Click the link on each award for details, submission requirements, and more:   Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service – Due June 1, 2020Created in […]

Kent Barnett, Emily Bremer, and I are thrilled to have organized the Duke Law Journal‘s fiftieth annual administrative law symposium, entitled Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication. The live symposium takes place this Friday, February 14, 2020 (Valentine’s Day!), so if you’re in the area definitely come join us. I’ll post links to the […]

I’ve always loved using ICF’s Reg Map in class with my students, and I can imagine it’s helpful in the real world to introduce new lawyers (and legal interns) at federal agencies, on the Hill, etc., to the federal notice-and-comment rulemaking process. The same is no doubt true for clients who are about to navigate […]

Here is the January 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. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it looks like scholarship on AI or the nondelegation make up half the list. Here’s the top ten: AI in Adjudication and Administration: […]

In a potentially major development in agency adjudication and enforcement, OMB has asked the public to “identify additional reforms that will ensure adequate due process in regulatory enforcement and adjudication.” Here is the request for information, which includes the instructions and link to submit comments. Comments are due by March 16, 2020. I’m reproducing the […]

Date: February 12, 2020 – 9:30 am to 12:00 pm EST Location:Jack Morton Auditorium, The George Washington University805 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20052(Map) Forum Press Release Sponsors: Administrative Conference of the United States The George Washington University Law School American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Program Description:Nationwide injunctions prohibit the federal government from enforcing statutes, […]

The Oversight Project at American University Washington College of Law is hosting a research conference on the work of federal oversight and accountability institutions, including Inspectors General, the General Accountability Office, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of Special Counsel, the Office of Management and Budget, and the role of the Congress in oversight […]

The Annual Meeting of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis will be held March 16-17, 2020, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC. You can find the full program and registration information on the Society’s website. Here are a few noteworthy panels for administrative law scholars and practitioners: 1.A Surviving Judicial Review Chair: […]

Here is the December 2019 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: AI in Adjudication and Administration: A Status Report on Governmental Use of Algorithmic Tools in the United States by Cary Coglianese & Lavi Ben Dor […]

Per the ABA website: On December 20, 2019, the ABA sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen urging the Justice Department to issue new government-wide guidance—based on the ABA’s Proposed Guidance—allowing government lawyers to participate more fully in the ABA and other legal professional associations. The proposed guidance is needed to correct the […]

From the program organizers Kent Barnett, Jarrod Shobe, and Evan Zoldan: If you are attending AALS this year in Washington, D.C., please join our New Voices in Administrative Law and Legislation program on Friday, January 3 at 3:30 to 5:15 in the Roosevelt 5 Room at the Marriott Wardman Park. Twelve of our colleagues will […]

With the transition to the new blog platform, it appears that my October 2019 edition of the AdLaw SSRN reading list has disappeared. So I’m combining both the October and November lists in this post (with the year-end December post to come shortly after the new year). Here is the October 2019 Edition of the […]