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Comparative Administrative Law New Scholarship Corner (February 2026)

Here is the list of works included in the February 2026 Comparative Administrative Law Scholarship Corner, which is curated by Eduardo Jordão (FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro), with the assistance of Eduarda Onzi. The Scholarship Corner is a resource provided through the Comparative Administrative Law listserv.

  1. Almiani, Khaled; Mirza, Shaher; Siyam, Nur; Al-Jaziri, Shaikha; Alqaryouti, Omar; Zufferey, Camille: Global Adoption and Impact of Blockchain Technology in Government: Enhancing Transparency, Efficiency, and Trust in Public Services;
  2. Appleton, Barry: Whose Law Governs Canadian Data? The CLOUD Act, Executive Agreements, and Digital Sovereignty;
  3. Asif, Rayyan: Equality and Inclusivity through Accountability: Regulating Automated Decision-Making in the Public Sector;
  4. Bagenstos, Samuel R.: “Slush Funds” and Congress’s Power of the Purse;
  5. Baum, Jeeyang Rhee; Stephenson, Matthew: Strategic Decision-Making by Anti-Corruption Agencies: Case Selection, Communication, and Institution-Building;
  6. Bressman, Lisa Schultz; Stack, Kevin M.: Regulatory Settlement, Stare Decisis, and Loper Bright;
  7. Caputo, Nicholas: Administrative Law’s Fourth Settlement: AI and the Capability-Accountability Trap;
  8. Casey, Conor: The Attorney General’s ‘Devil’: An Introduction to the work of First Treasury Counsel;
  9. Crocker, Katherine Mims: To Keep Government Generally Within the Bounds of Law;
  10. D’Zilva, Nicholas: Algorithmic Transparency and Democratic Legitimacy in Australia: A Procedural Fairness Approach;
  11. Daly, Paul: Administrative Law Year in Review 2025;
  12. De La Sierra, Susana; Moreno, Juana Morcillo; Cereceda, Pablo Meix: El Estado social digital;
  13. De La Sierra, Susana: AI in the Spanish Public Sector;
  14. Decker, Nicolin: The Doctrine of Constitutional Self-Restraint: Government Shutdowns as Lawful Contractions in the American Republic;
  15. Diab, Robert: Vavilov and Generative AI;
  16. Elgujja, Abba; Kaza, Saleh Abba; Alkali, Umar; Abubakar, Hauwa; Onyegbule, Kelechi: Nigeria’s Healthcare Delivery Paradox: Are Systemic Failures Rooted in Deficient Laws and Policies or in Weak Implementation and Enforcement?;
  17. Espinal De Aza, Eduardo Luis: Legal Automation and Multijurisdictional Normative Verification in the United States: An Artificial Intelligence-Based Framework for Regulatory Compliance;
  18. Feinstein, Brian D.; Walters, Daniel E.: Valuing Administrative Democracy;
  19. Freya, Amelia: Evaluation of Internal Audit Functions in Public Institutions;
  20. Giammatteo, John Harland: Immigration Adjudication, Judicial Review, And The Uneven Incorporation Of Administrative Law Norms;
  21. Hickman, Kristin E.; Dooling, Bridget C.E.: Delay, Politics, and Expertise in OIRA Tax Review;
  22. Huberfeld, Nicole; Lawrence, Matthew B.: The Missing Constitutional Law of Executive Conditions;
  23. Islam, Kamoliddin: The Digitalization of Public Services in Uzbekistan: How to Avoid the Rigidity?;
  24. Karki, Seema: Policy level Corruption in Nepal: How Laws are Bent to Serve Political and Bureaucratic Interests;
  25. Knight, Dean R.: Local Government and the Constitution;
  26. Krivelskaya, Olga: Problems of the Validity of Electronic Administrative Acts: A Comparative Legal Analysis;
  27. Le Suer, Andrew: Twenty-Five Years On: An Empirical Study of the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000;
  28. Liu, Lawrence J.: Opening the Tariff Toolkit: The Demand for U.S. Administrative Trade Remedies;
  29. Lytton, Timothy D.: A Systems Theory of Tort Law: Reevaluating the Case Against “Regulation by Litigation”;
  30. Mancini, Mark: Administrative Law Wrapped, 2025;
  31. Manns, Jeffrey: Constructive Gridlock;
  32. Menand, Lev: The Unitary Executive and the Federal Reserve;
  33. Murray, Philip; Warchuk, Paul: Ouster Clauses and the Common Law: a Historical Reappraisal;
  34. Parisio, Vera: Administrative justice, regional courts and legal certainty: a comparative overview;
  35. Piątek, Wojciech: Beyond Adjudication: Exploring the Multifaceted Role of Supreme Administrative Courts;
  36. Ponce, Mariano Enrique Torres: The Thousand-Click Bureaucracy: The Erosion of Due Process in Digital Administration;
  37. Rakitskaya, Inna: Social justice and its role in the implementation of the constitutional principle of the welfare state in Germany;
  38. Reid, Blake E.: Separation of Copyright Powers;
  39. Saren, Tuoya: The Algorithmic Hard Look 2.0: Rethinking Judicial Oversight of AI-Generated EISs;
  40. Shah, Bijal: On Administration by Fiat;
  41. Sharkey, Catherine M.; Pultz-Earle, Ian: Out from Under the Guise of Judicial Review;
  42. Siddiqui, Anam: Regulating Generative AI: Legal Accountability in the Age of Algorithms;
  43. Simon-Kerr, Julia Ann; Bernstein, Anya: Keeping Evidence Real;
  44. Singh, Major: Benches Across Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the Doctrine of Basic Structure;
  45. Skinner, Christina Parajon: The Independence of Central Bank Supervision;
  46. Sunstein, Cass R.: Coercive Paternalism vs. Libertarian Paternalism vs. Antipaternalism: A Triptych;
  47. Sunstein, Cass R.: WTP: Epistemic, Behavioral, and Philosophical Challenges;
  48. Tabor, Richard: The Continuous Oversight Act: Regulatory Architecture for Preserving Constitutional Memory and Institutional Integrity;
  49. Tontrup, Stephan; Arlen, Jennifer; Sprigman, Christopher Jon: Behavioral Self-Management and the Strategic Shifting of Fairness Norms;
  50. Vladeck, Stephen I.: The Supreme Court’s (Self-Defeating) Supremacy;
  51. Wilson, Amelia: Immigration Enforcement And The Major Questions Doctrine;
  52. Zumbini, Angela Ferrari; Monaco, Paola; Venier, Silvia: The Italian Journal of Public Law – The Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI: comparative, EU, international, and sectorial perspectives.

For more information about this terrific resource, check out my first post on the subject here. Previous editions are also collected here. The full version of the Comparative Administrative Law Scholarship Corner includes complete publication details and abstracts. To get it delivered to your inbox, along with other information and discussion about what’s going on in administrative law around the globe, sign up for the Comparative Administrative Law listserv!