New Books
Joanna Bell, The Anatomy of Administrative Law (Hart, 2020) [Website]
Miroslava Scholten & Alex Brenninkmeijer (eds.), Controlling EU Agencies: The Rule of Law in a Multi-jurisdictional Legal Order (Edward Elgar, 2020) [Website]
Accountability & Decision-making Processes
Steven J. Balla & Zhoudan Xie (2020) Consultation as policymaking innovation: comparing government transparency and public participation in China and the United States, Journal of Chinese Governance (June 2020) [Taylor & Francis Online]
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss & Barbara Romzek, When Public Participation is Public Theatre: Misuse of Public Comment Opportunities by Anti-Vaccine Activists (June 2020) [SSRN]
Jan Beyers & Sarah Arras, Stakeholder consultations and the legitimacy of regulatory decision‐making: A survey experiment in Belgium, in Regulation & Governance (2020) [Wiley Online]
Robert L. Glicksman, Shuttered Government (May 2020) [SSRN]
David Freeman Engstrom & Daniel E. Ho, Algorithmic Accountability in the Administrative State (April 2020) [SSRN]
Judicial Review
Joe Tomlinson, Katy Sheridan & Adam Harkens, Judicial Review Evidence in the Era of the Digital State (June 2020) [SSRN]
Richard J. Pierce, The Combination of Chevron and Political Polarity Will Have Awful Effects (June 2020) [SSRN]
Mihaela Vrabie, Judicial Review of Administrative Action at National Level under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and General Principles of EU Law (June 2020) [SSRN]
Mark Mancini, The Conceptual Gap Between Doré and Vavilov (June 2020) [SSRN]
Daniel Ortner, The End of Deference: How States Are Leading a (Sometimes Quiet) Revolution Against Administrative Deference Doctrines (May 2020) [SSRN]
John C. Harrison, Section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act Does Not Call for Universal Injunctions or Other Universal Remedies (May 2020) [SSRN]
Andrew Edgar & Kevin M. Stack, The Authority and Interpretation of Regulations (April 2020) [SSRN]
Andrew Schneider & Jonathan Stroud, The Eleventh Auer: The Effect of Kisor v. Wilkie on Rulemaking Procedures at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (April 2020) [SSRN]
Executive Department
Kathleen Claussen, Trade Administration (June 2020) [SSRN]
Tom Ginsburg & Mila Versteeg, Binding the Unbound Executive: Checks and Balances in Times of Pandemic (June 2020) [SSRN]
Oona A. Hathaway, Curtis Bradley & Jack Landman Goldsmith, The Failed Transparency Regime for Executive Agreements: An Empirical and Normative Analysis (May 2020) [SSRN]
Rosalind Dixon & David Landau, Constitutional End Games: Making Presidential Term Limits Stick (May 2020) [SSRN]
Seth Barrett Tillman, Why Strict Cabinet Succession is Always Bad Policy: A Response to Jack Goldsmith and Ben Miller-Gootnick (April 2020) [SSRN]
Shalini Bhargava Ray, Abdication Through Enforcement (April 2020) [SSRN]
Ching-Fu Lin, Chien-Huei Wu & Chuan-feng Wu, Reimagining the Administrative State in Times of Global Health Crisis: An Anatomy of Taiwan’s Regulatory Actions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 2020) [SSRN]
K. D. Ewing (2020) Covid-19: Government by Decree, King’s Law Journal, 31:1, 1-24 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Legislation/Statutory Interpretation
Franklin De Vrieze & Philip Norton (2020) The significance of post-legislative scrutiny, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 349-361 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Sarah Moulds (2020) A deliberative approach to post legislative scrutiny? Lessons from Australia’s ad hoc approach, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 362-386 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Tom Caygill (2020) The UK post-legislative scrutiny gap, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 387-404 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Irmgard Anglmayer & Amandine Scherrer (2020) Ex-post evaluation in the European Parliament: an increasing influence on the policy cycle, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 405-426 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Franklin De Vrieze (2020) Post-Legislative Scrutiny in Europe: how the oversight on implementation of legislation by parliaments in Europe is getting stronger, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 427-447 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Fotios Fitsilis & Franklin De Vrieze (2020) How parliaments monitor sustainable development goals – a ground for application of post legislative scrutiny, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 448-468 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Jonathan Murphy (2020) Towards parliamentary full cycle engagement in the legislative process: innovations and challenges, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 26:3, 469-493 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Shlomo Klapper, Soren Schmidt & Tor Tarantola, Ordinary Meaning from Ordinary People (June 2020) [SSRN]
Nir Kosti & David Levi-Faur, The Coproduction of Primary and Secondary Legislation: Israel as a Case Study of Substitutive Relationships (May 2020) [SSRN]
William Yeatman, The Case for Congressional Regulatory Review (May 2020) [SSRN]
Lorne Neudorf, Strengthening the Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: Lessons From Australia (April 2020) [SSRN]
Brendan Gogarty & Gabrielle J. Appleby, The Role of the Tasmanian Subordinate Legislation Committee During the COVID-19 Emergency (April 2020) [SSRN]
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Parliamentary Activity and Legislative Oversight during the Coronavirus Pandemic – A Comparative Overview (April 2020) [SSRN]
Cary Coglianese, Solving the Congressional Review Act’s Conundrum (April 2020) [SSRN]
Administrative Independence
Robert L. Glicksman & Richard E. Levy, Restoring ALJ Independence (May 2020) [SSRN]
Administrative History
Jennifer Mascott, Early Customs Laws and Delegation (June 2020) [SSRN]
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, The Indecisions of 1789: Strategic Ambiguity and the Imaginary Unitary Executive (Part I) (June 2020) [SSRN]
Robert Post, Tension in the Unitary Executive: How Taft Constructed the Epochal Opinion of Myers v. United States (June 2020) [SSRN]
Albert H. Y. Chen, The Chinese Tradition of Administrative Law (May 2020) [SSRN]
Modes of Governance and Regulation
Abhijit Banerjee et al., Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities (July 2020) [NBER]
Alberto Alemanno, Taming COVID-19 by Regulation: An Opportunity for Self-Reflection (July 2020) [SSRN]
Garry Gray & Benjamin van Rooij, Regulatory Disempowerment: How Enabling and Controlling Forms of Power Obstruct Citizen-based Regulation (June 2020) [SSRN]
Richard L. Revesz, Destabilizing Environmental Regulation: The Trump Administration’s Concerted Attack on Regulatory Analysis (June 2020) [SSRN]
Bridget C.E. Dooling, Bespoke Regulatory Review (June 2020) [SSRN]
Brian T. Fitzpatrick, Deregulation and Private Enforcement (June 2020) [SSRN]
Rory Van Loo, Federal Rules of Platform Procedure (June 2020) [SSRN]
Rohit Chopra & Lina Khan, The Case for ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’ Rulemaking (April 2020) [SSRN]
Georgios Dimitropoulos, The Law of Blockchain (April 2020) [SSRN]
Melissa Luttrell, EPA’s Cost-Benefit Catch-22 (April 2020) [SSRN]
Public Administration
Christopher A Cooper, Patrik Marier & Ali Halawi, The politics of senior bureaucratic turnover in the Westminster tradition: Trust and the choice between internal and external appointments, in Public Policy and Administration (June 2020) [SAGE Journals]
Gianluca Sgueo (European Parliamentary Research Service), The practice of democracy: A selection of civic engagement initiatives (June 2020) [Website]
Joshua R. Bruce & John M. de Figueiredo, Innovation in the U.S. Government (June 2020) [SSRN]
Jinyang Yang & Muchin Bazan, Are Pilot Experiments Random? Evidence from China’s Social Security Expansion (June 2020) [SSRN]
Dave Owen & Hannah Jacobs Wiseman, Coequal Federalism and Federal-State Agencies (June 2020) [SSRN]
Greg Weeks, Maladministration: the Particular Jurisdiction of the Ombudsman (May 2020) [SSRN]
Ricardo Dahis, Laura Schiavon & Thiago Scot, Selecting Top Bureaucrats: Admission Exams and Performance in Brazil (May 2020) [SSRN]
Sounman Hong (2020) Representative bureaucracy and hierarchy: interactions among leadership, middle-level, and street-level bureaucracy, Public Management Review [Taylor & Francis Online]
Albert Sanchez-Graells, Public Procurement by Central Purchasing Bodies, Competition and SMEs: Towards a More Dynamic Model? (May 2020) [SSRN]
David Freeman Engstrom, Daniel E. Ho, Catherine M. Sharkey & Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies (April 2020) [SSRN]
Robert Knowles & Geoffrey Heeren, Zealous Administration: The Deportation Bureaucracy (April 2020) [SSRN]
Jodi L. Short, The politics of regulatory enforcement and compliance: Theorizing and operationalizing political influences, in Regulation & Governance (2019) [Wiley Online]
Environmental Law & Regulation
Cale Jaffe, Environmental Federalism as Forum Shopping (June 2020) [SSRN]
Sam Kalen, NEPA’s Trajectory: Our Waning Environmental Charter from Nixon to Trump? (June 2020) [SSRN]
Financial Regulation
Ryan Clements, Regulating Fintech in Canada and the United States: Comparison, Challenges and Opportunities (April 2020) [SSRN]
Howell E. Jackson & Steven L. Schwarcz, Pandemics and Systemic Financial Risk (April 2020) [SSRN]
Andrew F. Tuch, The Rise of Fintech – Foreword (April 2020) [SSRN]
EU Administrative Law
Peter L. Lindseth, Executives, Legislatures, and the Semantics of EU Public Law: A Pandemic-Inflected Perspective (June 2020) [SSRN]
Alberto Alemanno & James Organ, The Case for Citizen Participation in the European Union: A Theoretical Perspective on EU Participatory Democracy (June 2020) [SSRN]
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, Jens Blom-Hansen & Roman Senninger (2020) Countering bias? The EU Commission’s consultation with interest groups, Journal of European Public Policy [Taylor & Francis Online]
Madalina Busuioc & Dovilė Rimkutė (2020) Meeting expectations in the EU regulatory state? Regulatory communications amid conflicting institutional demands, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:4, 547-568 [Taylor & Francis Online]