*This is the first post in a symposium on the decisional independence of administrative adjudicators. For other posts in the series, click here. A confluence of factors has brought increased attention to the structural aspects of administrative adjudication, as reflected in this blog symposium. The long-held assumption that agencies would usually conduct adjudications pursuant to […]
*This is the introduction to a symposium on the decisional independence of administrative adjudicators. For other posts in the series, click here. In the 75 years since Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), administrative adjudication has slid slowly but inexorably into crisis. Myriad forces have combined to undo the statute’s most crucial component: its […]
In their important paper on nondelegation, Professors Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley take to task those who use thinly sourced arguments to support the nondelegation doctrine. They put it bluntly: “It should go without saying that sweeping assertions about widely shared (let alone undisputed) understandings should not rest on such scanty source material.” (p. […]
I kick myself now. Had I understood the imminence of the deadline, maybe I could have concocted a way to cross paths with him sooner. But as things played out, I remained a distant admirer of Richard Parker for close to two decades and only got to experience his wit and charms in person during […]
The University of Minnesota Law School is pleased to host the seventh annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on June 22-23, 2022. Although we recognize that pandemic conditions could change between now and June, the current plan is to hold this event in person on the University of Minnesota campus. The Roundtable is an opportunity […]
*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. In Saving the Freedom of Information Act, Margaret Kwoka offers a deep empirical diagnosis of FOIA’s operational dysfunction. Her data make unmistakably clear that FOIA is falling far short of […]
In his recent Notice and Comment post, Professor Adam White noted that “[f]inancial regulators are reshaping themselves into tools of climate policy.” Throughout the piece, he asserted that that “the Fed’s latest step [is] toward becoming a major climate policymaker,” and that the central bank’s agency is “expanding…to encompass climate policy.” This is not true. […]
I was shocked and truly saddened to learn that our colleague Richard W. Parker has passed away last fall. The American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative and Regulatory Law is so robust and so highly regarded in part because of members like Richard. One indicia of the regard the Section had for Richard is obvious, […]
Financial regulators are reshaping themselves into tools of climate policy, and this transformation presents myriad problems—some legal, some practical. And the controversy surrounding recent nomination to the Federal Reserve remind us of yet another problem—one that seems to be catching some observers by surprise, but which is all too familiar to those of us who […]
*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s new book Saving the Freedom of Information Act substantially elevates the conversation surrounding the Freedom of Information Act and the administrative state by examining, in admirable detail, the […]
Editors’ Note: This post was originally published on October 11, 2021, but is reposted here as part of our series remembering Richard Parker. I am so deeply saddened to report that Professor Richard Parker from the University of Connecticut Law School passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, October 3, 2021. Like many, I first met Richard Parker at the […]
*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. In Lee’s Summit, located just outside Kansas City, Missouri, the federal government holds millions of immigration records in an old limestone mine known as “the Cave.” Margaret Kwoka visited the […]
Richard Parker was a passionate scholar, a dedicated teacher and a longstanding, loyal member of the Section. He was also my closest friend among the dozens of people I’ve gotten to know through the Section, a connection forged when we met at the first Section meeting either of us had ever attended, 20 years ago […]
*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. At the risk of reducing academic sub-fields to stereotypes, scholarship on open government laws in the legal academy appears to fall into two broad categories: administrative law scholars who associate […]
On November 20, 2021, 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 Richard Watson Parker, Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, passed away on October 3, 2021; WHEREAS Richard was a dear colleague and […]