We are two weeks away from the ABA AdLaw Section’s 15th Annual Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Institute. Our annual spring conference is a lighter, one-day conference, which focuses on 101 topics and current developments in administration law. The annual fall conference, by contrast, is our two-day extravaganza with dozens of panels on basic and […]
Last fall, in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Kent Barnett, Christina Boyd, and I published the latest article from our Chevron in the circuit courts dataset, titled Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics. Here’s the abstract for that paper: Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. commanded courts to […]
From the University of La Verne Law Review: The University of La Verne College of Law will hold an Aviation Law Symposium on Friday, January 24, 2020, in La Verne, California in partnership with the University of La Verne Law Review. The aim of the symposium is to bring city attorneys and county counsel (in […]
13th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute Friday May 31, 2019 | Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, VA We are excited to announce an updated agenda for the 13th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute, including Co-Sponsorships from: The ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security The ABA Senior Lawyers Division The ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries […]
This spring has produced a lot of great administrative law scholarship and a robust and exciting summer reading list. Here is the March 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. Article II Vests Executive Power, Not […]
Next Thursday, May 2nd, the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State will be hosting a conference on the Hill entitled The Constitution’s First Branch⏤Rediscovering the Legislative Power. Jonathan Adler and I will be participating on the first panel to discuss our current project on Congress’s role in addressing the temporal issues […]
From the Duke Law Journal editors: The Duke Law Journal invites proposals for its 50th Annual Administrative Law Symposium, to be held in February 2020, at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. The Duke Law Journal’s Administrative Law Symposium has been the premier administrative law event for over four decades. Previous symposia […]
2019 Spring Conference | 15th Annual Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Institute Friday May 31, 2019 | Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, VA We are excited to announce that the 2019 Spring Conference, 15th Annual Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Institute will take place on May 31st at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, registration includes the full […]
Press release from the U.S. Department of Labor: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced that Judith S. Boggs has been assigned to chair the Department’s Benefits Review Board. Boggs assignment comes upon the departure of Betty Jean Hall, who retired as board chair on March 31, 2019. Prior to this appointment, Boggs served […]
The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Presents Federal Honors Programs Teleconference for Law Students Wednesday April 17th, 2019 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Eastern Time Teleconference Event For anyone interested in practicing regulatory law, the federal government is a terrific place to begin a career. Attorneys from the Departments of Homeland Security, […]
Here is the February 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. On the Senate’s Purported Constitutional Duty to Meaningfully Consider Presidential Nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States: A Response to Chief Judge Peter […]
Next week’s main adlaw event at the Supreme Court is, of course, Kisor v. Wilkie, in which the Court will decide whether to overturn Auer deference to agency regulatory interpretations. But next week’s argument schedule also includes a pretty fascinating adlaw undercard: PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic. Over at SCOTUSblog, I posted a preview […]
Over at JOTWELL last week, I reviewed Amy Semet’s terrific new article An Empirical Examination of Agency Statutory Interpretation, which is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Here’s a snippet from my review: Inspired by Lisa Bressman and Abbe Gluck’s pioneering empirical study on how congressional staffers approach drafting statutes, I spent months in 2013 surveying federal agency rule drafters on […]
Just barely getting this up in February, but here is the January 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. On the Senate’s Purported Constitutional Duty to Meaningfully Consider Presidential Nominees to the Supreme Court of the […]
Over at the Administrative Fix Blog hosted by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), Frank Massaro has this post on ACUS’s New Sourcebooks: In early 2019, ACUS will publish several new sourcebooks that will serve as invaluable resources for understanding the federal government and the diverse work of federal administrative agencies. First, in January […]