At the 2020 ABA Annual Administrative Law Conference in November, I had the privilege of presenting the Section Fellows award to the Honorable Judith Boggs. I often tell my students that when you want to know how to get somewhere in life, you have to figure out who is already there. Take a look at […]
Lorraine Lee is the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the State of Washington, a post she has held for almost twelve years. She is presently serving her third five-year term under appointment of Governor Jay Inslee. She became the Chief Judge after serving in many Washington State agency capacities, including chair of the board that […]
Next week, several current and former bloggers from these pages will participate in the annual Executive Branch Review conference. This year the conference will address legal issues related to the next four years in administrative agencies and the executive branch writ large. The online conference will start at 11:00 a.m. each day from Monday, May […]
Created in 1989 by the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, the Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service honors the memory of Mary Lawton, a distinguished career government lawyer who served on the Council of the Administrative Law Section from 1983-1986, and as Chair of the Section’s Judicial Review Committee from […]
This week, the D.C. Circuit issued an en banc order: If you are interested in what this case is about, here is how the panel decision begins: The concurring opinion by Judges Tatel and Ginsburg, in turn, says: Interesting. Because the subject has been on my mind, however, I want to focus on the appointment […]
This series paying tribute to exemplary government workers is a fitting way for the Section and Notice & Comment to observe Public Service Recognition Week. Coverage of excessive use of force by police nationally, too often resulting in death, has shared the headlines in Massachusetts with police fraud in accounting for overtime. The attention these […]
Jeff Bezos is number one on many lists. He is the richest man in the world. He is also simultaneously number one on the enemies list of a rising star on the left—Lina Khan—and a rising star on the right—Josh Hawley. The 32-year-old Khan became famous by publishing a widely cited and highly praised student […]
Yale Law School is pleased to host the sixth annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on September 17-18, 2021. We plan to hold this event in person on the Yale campus, assuming that public health conditions allow Yale to begin permitting visitors to campus, which we are optimistic they will. The Roundtable is an opportunity […]
On Friday the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice will be holding our annual Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Institute as well as our annual Homeland Security Law Institute. It’s not to late to register for these virtual, combined conferences (details here). As part of this dual-conference event, we will be hosting a […]
H. Alexander Manuel is the current chair of the American Bar Association’s National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary (NCALJ) through August, 2021. A distinct conference within the Judicial Division, NCALJ works to enhance the status and competence of federal and state administrative judiciary members and to ensure the quality and efficiency of the delivery […]
Every first week of May since 1985 we have celebrated Public Service Recognition Week, honoring those who serve our Nation at the federal, state, local, and tribal level. The ABA Administrative Law Section has decided to commission a month-long series to honor public servants who have made a different in our lives and country. If […]
On May 7, 2021, the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice will be holding our annual Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Institute as well as our annual Homeland Security Law Institute. Both conferences will be virtual and in the same virtual conference room, so with one registration you can choose which panels to […]
OMB issued a memo yesterday entitled “Promoting Public Trust in the Federal Government and Effective Policy Implementation through Interagency Review and Coordination of the American Rescue Plan Act.” OMB numbers some of its memos and this one is M-21-24. Apropos of my tendency to gush about OMB and the relative paucity of click-baity listicles on […]
I’ve been doing this monthly SSRN post for years, and we’ve had so many months full of great administrative law scholarship. But this last month may be my favorite so far, just such a rich collection of scholarship in one month. Here is the March 2021 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in […]
*This is the tenth post in a series on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s new book Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. For other posts in this series, click here. In Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule offer what must be described as a fairly rosy account of […]