Each year the American Constitution Society hosts the Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition in Regulatory and Administrative Law. The list of prior winners is a who’s who in administrative law. Plus there’s a separate student category! The submission deadline of February 4th is quickly approaching. Here are the full details from the ACS website: The American […]
On Friday, the UCLA Law Review will be hosting a terrific symposium entitled The Safeguards of Our Constitutional Republic. So if you happen to be in Southern California, definitely join us! Here’s the description of the symposium from the law review’s website: We find ourselves today at a political, legal, and cultural crossroad. This past year […]
I’ve previously given my pitch (here) for why every administrative law practitioner, scholar, and student should join the ABA’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. I’m now seconding Linda Jellum’s recent invitation (reproduced below) for administrative law folks to join an ABA AdLaw Section committee. I co-chair the adjudication committee with ACUS Vice Chair […]
The calls to rethink Chevron deference haven’t ceased, with the primary focus being on whether to eliminate the doctrine entirely or how to narrow it further on Chevron Step Zero (think: major questions doctrine). I’ve captured those developments and arguments in an essay forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy entitled Attacking Auer and […]
Junior administrative law scholars (7 years or fewer in the academy) are invited to submit papers every other year to the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. This year is administrative law’s year in the rotation. Here are the details from Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log: Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 19th session of […]
If you’re looking for an introduction or quick refresher on the Congress.gov resource, the Law Library of Congress has a free webinar scheduled for next week. For those who teach legislation, Congress.gov also has a great collection of short videos on the legislative process that are available here. You can register for the webinar here, with details […]
Happy new year! 2017 was a great year for administrative law scholarship. Here is the final (December) 2017 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. A Bureaucracy – If You Can Keep It by Mila Sohoni (131 Harvard Law […]
On Thursday, I had the privilege of participating on a terrific administrative law panel at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in San Diego. The Federalist Society organized the panel, which meant the four panelists brought very diverse perspectives to the discussion on how to reform the administrative state. Here’s the description of the […]
This year has been an eventful one for administrative law, to put it mildly. We have had a change in presidential administration, with an accompanying focus on deregulation across the federal bureaucracy and mission re-orientation at a number of federal agencies. One agency (the CFPB) currently has dueling acting directors—one appointed by the outgoing agency head and the other […]
Over at Brookings’ Center on Regulation and Markets, Philip Wallach has started a terrific new Regulatory Process and Perspective Series, with Anne Joseph O’Connell, Rachel Augustine Potter, and Connor Raso as regular contributors. Here is Wallach’s introduction to the series: Regulatory process” is a phrase that can’t help but sound boring— to many people, it […]
Paul Verkuil, former Chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States and former law school dean at Tulane and Cardozo, published an important new book this summer entitled Valuing Bureaucracy: The Case for Professional Government (Cambridge University Press). Here’s the description of the book from the CUP website: To be effective, government must be […]
Here is the November 2017 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. And it’s a terrific set of papers, perfect timing for law professor winter break reading (after grading finals!). You’ll note one recurring theme: The 2017 […]
The Free State Foundation has released a set of short, generally positive reactions to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which would undo the FCC’s net neutrality/open internet order. The contributors include Babette Boliek, Timothy Brennan, Michelle Connolly, Robert Crandall, Richard Epstein, Gus Hurwitz, Daniel Lyons, James Prieger, and Christopher Yoo. I also contributed a […]
Anne Joseph O’Connell has organized a terrific ABA teleforum on the CFPB dueling directors dispute for December 4, 2017, from 3PM-4PM eastern. It’s free and open to the public, but you must register here. [12/1 Update: The ABA has recruited two additional panelists — Nina Mendelson and Jonathan Adlaw — so I’ve updated the post […]
Steve Calabresi nearly broke the internet (see, e.g., here, here, and here) by proposing last week at the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention that the Trump Administration should add more judges to the federal judiciary. His proposal, coauthored with Shams Hirji, is available on SSRN here. Here’s a summary of the proposal: This paper argues that the […]