Each year, the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice recognizes outstanding scholarship in administrative law published during the prior year. I write to invite nominations for the 2025 award. Eligible books and articles are those published (copyrighted) in 2025.

Publications worthy of the Section’s award generally should be:

• Well written — clear, engaging, and accessible, demonstrating that important ideas need not be difficult to read;
• Carefully reasoned — presenting a focused analysis that advances a coherent central thesis;
• Broadly relevant — applicable across multiple programs, doctrines, or areas of administrative law;
• Timely and insightful — offering new perspectives on current issues in administrative law;
• Innovative or practical — either developing a new theoretical framework or proposing a meaningful solution to an administrative law problem; and
• Original — minimizing repetition and unnecessary recitation of existing work.

The award recipient will be selected by September 2026 and announced shortly thereafter.

Nomination Requirements

• A link to the work (for law review articles) an e-copy (for books); and
• A brief explanation of how the work satisfies the six criteria above (1-2 sentences for each criteria max).

Self-nominations are welcome.

Submission Information

Please submit nominations electronically to: Robin.Roy@americanbar.org and anne.kiefer@americanbar.org.