Americans love to shop online. The combination of a wide array of products, fast shipping, low prices, and convenience are increasingly shifting retail sales to the Internet. Shopping online proved invaluable during the COVID Pandemic when consumers were shut-in for months. Thousands of new online-only retailers have emerged, increasing the array of product choices for Americans. One difficulty […]
In January, the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, the field of administrative law, and the legal profession more generally lost an amazing leader, mentor, and colleague with the passing of University of Nebraska Law Professor Anna Shavers. I first got to know Anna well when I joined the governing council of the […]
When I heard that Professor Anna Shavers had passed, I was stunned. Anna was truly one of the kindest people I have ever met. She had an unmatched generosity of spirit and kindness. I first met Anna at the ABA Administrative Law Section’s fall meeting many years ago. She was interim dean of Nebraska College […]
Date: February 09, 2023 Location: Washington, DC Time: All Day, beginning 9:00 a.m. EST The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy Pacific Legal Foundation’s Center for the Separation of Powers and Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy seek papers for a symposium on “Ensuring Democratic Accountability in the Administrative State,” to be held in February 2023, […]
Our team of commentators at D.C. Circuit Review – Reviewed have repeatedly warned our readers that the comparative quiet of the last few weeks on the D.C. Circuit would not last for long. This week proves the point. Although the week started slowly with the release of a single opinion on Tuesday, on Friday the […]
Anna was a pioneer. A scholar of administrative and immigration law and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, Anna has a presence that was thoughtful, wise, and inclusive. I first met Anna while serving with the ABA Commission on Immigration. I was fortunate to watch her lead and spread her knowledge. Even from afar, […]
I wish I had known Anna Shavers better. In my limited interactions with her, she was always the epitome of kindness and consideration for others. Not long after I joined the University of Minnesota law faculty as a very junior scholar, I attended the American Bar Association’s fall administrative law conference. Anna sought me out […]
The members and staff of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) mourn the recent passing of Anna Williams Shavers, the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Professor Shavers was affiliated with ACUS for nearly nine years—first as a […]
This January we lost one of our former Section Chairs, Professor Anna Shavers. Anna embodied the spirit of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. Her death leaves a hole in the heart of the Section as well as a vacancy on the Council where her leadership always embraced the representation of diverse voices […]
In its May 2022 ruling in United States v. Arthrex—let’s call it Arthrex II—the Federal Circuit significantly undercut the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, acknowledging that its interpretation rendered the Act’s application “vanishingly small.” The FVRA is, of course, the statutory structure that reinforces the President’s obligation to subject top officials to formal nomination […]
The ABA Section of Adminstrative Law and Regulatory Practice will host its annual administrative law conference on December 1-2, 2022. This is the Section’s signature event, and it attracts hundreds of government officials, scholars, and practitioners with two packed days of panels and programming. Following a survey of prior attendees, and as much as we […]
On Saturday, February 12, 2022, the governing council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice approved the following resolution: WHEREAS our friend and colleague Anna Williams Shavers, Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, died on […]
The American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice is honored to organize this collection of tributes to Anna Shavers. Unfortunately, our community lost Anna in January 2022. In remembrance and with great respect, I will begin this celebration of Anna’s influence and contributions by explaining her influence on my career. Talking about […]
Nasdaq may have broken a seven-week losing streak on Wall Street, but its losses continued at Constitution Avenue. More on that in a moment, but first a quick look at non-opinion news because this week has been an eventful one at the D.C. Circuit. On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously vindicated the D.C. Circuit, which […]
Good opportunity for admin law, bureaucracy, regulation, health law, and FDA-regulated products practitioners & scholars (just to name a few!). The Food & Drug Law Journal is convening a symposium on FDA’s relationship with other domestic regulators. From the call: This Symposium will offer wide-ranging discussion, among scholars and practitioners, of the actual and the […]