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AALS Journal of Legal Education Symposium on Legislation and Regulation in 1L Curriculum

Last week the Journal of Legal Education, which is the official legal pedagogy journal of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), published a terrific symposium issue on legislation and regulation in the first-year law school curriculum. It’s great to see the issue in print. You can access the full version for free here. The live symposium was […]

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My ACUS Report on Federal Agencies in the Legislative Process

Last week the Administrative Conference of the United States posted a draft of my report entitled Federal Agencies in the Legislative Process: Technical Assistance in Statutory Drafting. This report builds on the empirical survey work I conducted a couple years ago on federal agency rulemaking and agency statutory interpretation, which culminated in an article published in […]

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Rodriguez, Stiglitz & Weingast on Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Powers (AdLaw Bridge Series)

In my survey of federal agency rule drafters, I decided to ask a question about the role of presidential signing statements in agency statutory interpretation. In particular, I included a list of nine types of legislative history and asked: “For each of the following, please tell us if the type of legislative history is a (VR) […]

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Improved Economic Analysis in SEC Rulemaking?

As I’ve blogged about before, the role of cost-benefit analysis—and economic analysis more generally—in financial regulation has been a hot topic in recent years among scholars, policymakers, regulators, and the regulated. This debate has been sparked in part by the D.C. Circuit’s aggressive review of SEC rulemaking—in cases like Business Roundtable v. SEC and others—and […]

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Michaels on Parrillo and Government Privatization (AdLaw Bridge Series)

I previously blogged here about Nicholas Parrillo‘s terrific book Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (2013), noting that the book “is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history (and future) of administrative law and regulation.” Recently in the pages of the Harvard Law Review, Jon Michaels reviews Nick’s […]

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New ACUS Project on Aggregate Agency Adjudication

The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) just announced a new project they’ve commissioned, entitled Aggregate Agency Adjudication. The consultants on this project are Adam Zimmerman and Michael Sant’Ambrogio, and it builds on their terrific article The Agency Class Action, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1992 (2012). Here’s a description of the project, from the ACUS project […]

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Important New Empirical Studies on Immigration Adjudication (AdLaw Bridge Series)

With the spring law review submission process winding down, I’ll be spending the next few months trying to catch up on covering the terrific new administrative law scholarship via this Administrative Law Bridge Series. In this post, I’d like to highlight three important empirical studies on immigration adjudication. Full disclosure: Immigration adjudication is an area […]