On May 17, 2016, the Energy Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice will hold a teleconference on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing, LLC decision, a watershed case concerning the scope of a state’s powers, consistent with the Federal Power Act, to subsidize new […]
I’m guessing I’m not alone in looking at a pile of final exams to grade. In case you need a distraction (or a start on your summer reading list), here is the April 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 […]
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, RegBlog is celebrating its fifth birthday with a special series looking back on the last five years in regulation. This RegBlog@5 Series has been a lot of fun so far, and it epitomizes RegBlog’s ability to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in the regulatory state. […]
The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, Government Personnel Committee will host two brown bag lunches this month on the latest developments at the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), Office of Federal Operations. These brown bags are part of a larger series of discussions the Government Personnel […]
Greetings from Andrew Emery and Susan Prosnitz, co-chairs of the ABA’s 2016 Fall Administrative Law Conference to be held on December 8-9, 2016, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. As is the customary practice of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, we would like you to propose topics […]
Especially in light of my interest in immigration adjudication—where immigration judges are administrative judges and not administrative law judges—I was particularly excited to read an earlier draft of Kent Barnett’s Against Administrative Judges, which is forthcoming in the UC Davis Law Review. You can download a draft of the paper here, and here’s the abstract: […]
Earlier this month we hosted a terrific online symposium reviewing my co-blogger Peter Conti-Brown’s important new book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, which was recently published by the Princeton University Press. The contributions to the symposium were diverse and thought-provoking. For ease of reference, I thought I’d include links to all of […]
Over at Procedurally Taxing last week, my colleague Stephanie Hoffer and I weighed in on a fascinating new decision out of the Tax Court that held that Chenery does not apply to preclude the IRS from making arguments in the judicial tax deficiency action that the IRS did not make at the agency level. The […]
This month over at RegBlog they are celebrating their fifth birthday with a fifteen-part series on the last five years in regulation. (I’ll be contributing a piece later this month on developments regarding administrative law’s judicial deference doctrines.) [Update: The entire series and schedule can be found here.] RegBlog founder and Penn law professor Cary […]
Two weeks ago, in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council, District Judge Rosemary Collyer (D.D.C.) sent waves through the financial services industry and among scholars of cost-benefit analysis. Relying in part on the Supreme Court’s decision last Term in Michigan v. EPA , the district court held that the FSOC violated the Administrative Procedure Act […]
Last week over at Jotwell, Richard Murphy reviewed Auer in Action: Deference After Talk America byCynthia Barmore, which was published last year in the Ohio State Law Journal. Here’s a summary of the paper from the SSRN abstract (the paper is available on SSRN here): For decades, judges and commentators took for granted that courts should […]
The new Washington and Lee Law Review Rankings (based purely on citation counts) are out, and the Yale Journal on Regulation remains the top administrative law journal. It also comes in at No. 56 among all law reviews (based on the “combined” score). Congrats editors! In case you’re curious, here’s the top ten for administrative […]
There is a rumor out there (which may have just started with this post) that one out of every thirteen copies of Peter Conti-Brown’s new book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve includes a chapter exploring how over the last century the Freemasons have influenced and in some respect controlled the form and […]
Here’s the press release on the terrific Penn Program on Regulation event today at noon, which will be live-streamed: The Penn Program on Regulation will hold a panel discussion, The Next Five Years in Regulation: An Election Year Conversation, on April 5, 2016 at noon at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. The session will […]
For those readers who are law professors (or aspiring law professors), I thought I’d note that I’m guestblogging over at PrawfsBlawg this month, doing series on frequently asked questions by junior law professors concerning scholarship and becoming a voice in one’s field. I plan on doing a dozen or so questions, hopefully crowdsourcing answers from the […]