This year’s ABA Administrative Law Conference was already going to be an amazing event — an absolute must-attend conference for adlaw nerds, scholars, and practitioners. But with the election surprise and change in presidential administration (plus a Congress controlled by the same party as the President-Elect), the topics being covered at the conference take on […]
With the presidential transition in process and one party about to control both chambers of Congress and the White House, it seems timely to highlight the terrific scholarship by Jon Michaels on administrative separation of powers. I recently reviewed several chapters from his forthcoming book on the subject, and they reminded me of a great article — entitled […]
I am delighted to contribute to this symposium on the 2016 Report to the President-Elect that the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice issued shortly before the presidential election. As Emily Bremer noted in her symposium introduction earlier today, a number of administrative law scholars and experts will be doing short […]
The Data Quality Act (DQA), aka as the Information Quality Act, allows members of the public to file citizen petitions to obtain corrections of inaccurate information disseminated by federal agencies. Consequently the DQA provides a means for the public to obtain corrections in press releases, reports and regulations issued by federal agencies. In essence the […]
The 2016 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention takes place later this week in Washington, DC. The conference theme this year centers on the jurisprudence and legacy of Justice Scalia. In light of the presidential election surprise last week, the theme will no doubt be more prospective — and not just retrospective — than originally planned. […]
My guess is that the Trump Transition Team is feeling pretty overwhelmed right now, so I’ll keep this initial post short and sweet. But I did want to share a few thoughts on the regulatory state that may be of value to the Transition Team as they identify key political appointees and first priorities for […]
Here is the October 2016 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 really terrific set of papers. Law in the Anthropocene Epoch by Eric Biber [CJW Note: I’m a big fan of Biber’s coauthored work […]
In the frequently asked questions chapter of the Federal Register Document Drafting Handbook, the Office of the Federal Register provides (in Section 18.7) the following prohibition: It is not appropriate to quote laws and rules in the text of Federal Register documents. Laws may be paraphrased and rules may be cross-referenced if they meet the requirements in […]
I am a big fan of Kathryn Kovacs‘s important work on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and administrative common law (here, here, and here). So I was so excited when the editors of my institution’s main journal, the Ohio State Law Journal, informed me that they would be publishing Professor Kovacs’s latest article, Scalia’s Bargain. […]
[10/31 Update: Apparently we had ninety people on the live teleforum about our study. The Federalist Society has kindly turned the teleforum into a podcast, which is available here. The paper will not be published until next summer, so comments are particularly welcome.] The Federalist Society’s Administrative Law and Regulation Practice Group has graciously organized […]
Next Friday, October 28th, the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice will hold its annual Administrative Law Section Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C. Each year the ABA AdLaw Section hands out a number of awards, including an award for the best piece of administrative law scholarship published in the last year. This […]
Over the last few years Michael Sant’Ambrogio and Adam Zimmerman have been doing very important work on the various adjudicatory tools federal agencies may have available to them to engage in aggregate agency adjudication. First, in The Agency Class Action, published in the Columbia Law Review, they sketch out the theoretical and policy case for […]
It is only fitting that on the day the blog launches a new series — The Administrative Conference Update — by our new regular blogger Emily Bremer (welcome!) that I highlight an important new report from the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). With Professor Michael Asimow as the academic consultant, ACUS has spent the last […]
Over at Jotwell last week, I highlighted as one of the best new articles in administrative a piece by Aditya Bamzai entitled The Origins of Judicial Deference to Executive Interpretation. This article is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal next year, and it’s a must-read article for adlaw geeks as Bamzai casts serious doubt on the […]
Every year I look forward to the George Washington Law Review‘s Annual Review of Administrative Law, as the editors do a great job of selecting articles for inclusion in the issue. (I’m not just saying that because they published the first article I wrote after joining the law faculty here.) This year’s issue was just published, […]