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Symposium on Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky's "Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance"

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How Should the Government’s Automated Legal Guidance Evolve?: A Response, by Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky

This post concludes Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. Thank you to the editors of JREG for organizing the wonderful symposium this week regarding our new book, Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance, and thank you to […]

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The Promise and Pitfalls of Point-and-Click Government, by Kristin Hickman

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. We live in a computerized, point-and-click world. Increasingly, this means that our interactions with the government also are reduced to pointing and clicking at the computer. In […]

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Disclaimers, by Emily Cauble

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. In Automated Agencies, Professors Blank and Osofsky offer “the definitive account of how automation is transforming government explanations of law to the public,” as the book’s description […]

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Democratizing to Protect Against Government “Slop,” by Clint Wallace

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. It is a pleasure to participate in this symposium on Josh Blank’s and Leigh Osofsky’s excellent new book, Automated Agencies. Their work intersects in significant and interesting […]

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The Automated Legal Guidance Effect, by Sarah B. Lawsky

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance, by Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky, is part of the authors’ larger study of informal legal guidance, such as […]

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Reflections on Automated Agencies, by Nina E. Olson

This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. In Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance, the authors make a strong case for a principled approach toward agencies’ use of automated guidance; such an approach […]

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The Brave New World of Automated Agency Guidance, by Lawrence Zelenak

This post is the first contribution to Notice & Comment’s symposium on Joshua D. Blank and Leigh Osofsky’s Automated Agencies: The Transformation of Government Guidance. For other posts in the series, click here. In a 1990 episode of the sitcom Roseanne, Roseanne and Dan Conner (played by Roseanne Barr and John Goodman) are frantically working on […]