In January, the AALS Administrative Law Section recognized Benjamin Eidelson and Blake Emerson as co-recipients of its second annual Emerging Scholar Award. Nominations for this year’s award are due on September 30th. Self-nominations are welcome!  Full-time faculty members without tenure at the time of the work’s publication, including those with fellowships, visiting assistant professorships, or similar positions, are eligible. To nominate someone, please send an anonymized version of their work to me, […]

The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is seeking to hire an experienced, senior-level attorney advisor at the GS-13 or GS-14 level. The ideal candidate would have at least two years of experience working as an attorney in a setting requiring them to independently manage a portfolio of projects and possess a demonstrative academic or professional […]

Earlier this summer, the international trade community celebrated reaching agreement around several topics at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. After many years of stagnation in negotiations, the WTO demonstrated its continued relevance in the development of shared rules and principles related to international commerce. Now the member countries must take these agreements home […]

The D.C. Circuit was busy this week — really busy: This creates a problem for a blog series like this one that attempts to tie together opinions based on themes. Of course, I could play the * game.* Or I could come up with a theme that is so general that it serves no function […]

From the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (registration here): Benefit-Cost Analysis for U.S. Regulations co-sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Benefit-cost analysis is used around the world to assess regulatory impacts. This workshop introduces the use of Benefit-Cost Analysis for Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) in the Federal government. The topics will include issues of identifying […]

Please join us for the ABA Administrative Law Section’s yearly Administrative Law CLE Conference on Thursday December 1 and Friday December 2, 2022!  The conference will be virtual. This year’s program is stellar. Panel topics include regulating emerging technologies, OIRA, the nondelegation doctrine, and the Major Questions Doctrine– it’s all here! Our Friday Developments panels […]

Today’s is not the economy of years past. Gone are the days when tried-and-true manufacturing and a steady, patriotic gusto were enough to ensure an American company’s success; to thrive in the modern market, large companies must maintain a well-organized, nearly prescient process of tax structuring and avoidance. Enter the global scale, and the process […]

Thanks to the diligent work of my research assistant Patrick Sullivan, I have completed another annual update of the list of Legislation and Regulation (Leg Reg) and Administrative Law course requirements at ABA accredited law schools. The link to the list as a publicly viewable Google doc is here. Among the revisions since last year, […]