New Books
Eric C. Ip, Judging Regulators: The Political Economy of Anglo-American Administrative Law (Edward Elgar, 2020) [Website]
Joseph Heath, The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press, 2020) [Website]
Mariolina Eliantonio & Caroline Cauffman (eds.), The Legitimacy of Standardisation as a Regulatory Technique: A Cross-disciplinary and Multi-level Analysis (Edward Elgar, 2020) [Website]
Dacian C. Dragos, Polonca Kovač, Hanna D. Tolsma (eds.), The Sound of Silence in European Administrative Law (Palgrave, 2020) [Website]
Colleen M. Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Thériault, Sridhar Venkatapuram (eds.),Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 (University of Ottawa Press, 2020) [Website]
Jud Mathews, U.S. Administrative Law (2020) [SSRN]
Accountability & Decision-making Processes
Robin Effron, The Invisible Circumstances of Notice (December 2020) [SSRN]
Christopher J. Walker & Matthew Wiener, Agency Appellate Systems (November 2020) [SSRN]
Tom Hickman, Abracadabra Law-Making and Accountability to Parliament for the Coronavirus Regulations (November 2020) [SSRN]
Jonathan H. Choi, Legal Analysis, Policy Analysis, and the Price of Deference: An Empirical Study of Mayo and Chevron (November 2020) [SSRN]
Bridget C.E. Dooling, Into the Void: GAO’s Role in the Regulatory State (October 2020) [SSRN]
Caelesta Braun & Madalina Busuioc (2020) Stakeholder engagement as a conduit for regulatory legitimacy?, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1599-1611 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Christel Koop & Martin Lodge (2020) British economic regulators in an age of politicisation: from the responsible to the responsive regulatory state?, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1612-1635 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Dovilė Rimkutė (2020) Strategic silence or regulatory talk? Regulatory agency responses to public allegations amidst the glyphosate controversy, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1636-1656 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Simon Fink & Eva Ruffing (2020) Stakeholder consultations as reputation-building: a comparison of ACER and the German Federal Network Agency, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1657-1676 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Rik Joosen (2020) The tip of the iceberg – interest group behaviour in rule drafting and consultations during EU agency rulemaking, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1677-1697 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Stefano Pagliari & Kevin L. Young (2020) Exploring information exchange among interest groups: a text-reuse approach, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1698-1717 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Claire A Dunlop, Jonathan Kamkhaji, Claudio M Radaelli, Gaia Taffoni & Claudius Wagemann (2020) Does consultation count for corruption? The causal relations in the EU-28, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1718-1741 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Hanan Haber & Eva Heims (2020) Regulating with the masses? Mapping the spread of participatory regulation, Journal of European Public Policy, 27:11, 1742-1762 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Michael Sant’Ambrogio & Glen Staszewski, Democratizing Rule Development (2020) [SSRN]
Cary Coglianese, Illuminating Regulatory Guidance (September 2020) [SSRN]
Oren Perez, Collaborative Е-Rulemaking, Democratic Bots, and the Future of Digital Democracy (September 2020) [SSRN]
Richard J. Pierce, Agency Adjudication: It Is Time to Hit the Reset Button (2020) [SSRN]
Judicial Review
Alexandra Klein, Nondelegating Death (December 2020) [SSRN]
Cass R. Sunstein, On Overruling Chevron (November 2020) [SSRN]
Cass R. Sunstein, There Are Two ‘Major Question’ Doctrines (November 2020) [SSRN]
Paul Daly, Governmental Power and COVID-19: The Limits of Judicial Review (November 2020) [SSRN]
Andy Yu, Delegated Legislation and the Charter (November 2020) [SSRN]
Edward Cottrill, Administrative ‘Determinations of Law’ and the Limits of Legal Pluralism After Vavilov (November 2020) [SSRN]
Emily Morgan & Michael Barsa, Presidential Administration, the Appearance of Corruption, and the Rule of Law: Can Courts Rein In Unlawful Executive Orders? (November 2020) [SSRN]
Paul Daly, The Appellate Standard of Review in Public Law Cases (October 2020) [SSRN]
Matthew B. Lawrence, Congress’ Domain: Appropriations, Time, and Chevron (October 2020) [SSRN]
Kristin E. Hickman & David Hahn, Categorizing Chevron (October 2020) [SSRN]
Kent H. Barnett, How Chevron Deference Fits Into Article III (October 2020) [SSRN]
Jonathan H. Adler, Delegation, Time and the Nondelegation Baseline (October 2020) [SSRN]
Lisa Heinzerling, Nondelegation on Stilts (October 2020) [SSRN]
Shaun Fluker, Vavilov and the Judicial Review of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Decisions in Canada (2020) [SSRN]
Michael Ramsden, ‘The Future of Wednesbury Unreasonableness in the Substantive Review of Administrative Discretion: A Hong Kong Perspective’ (October 2020) [SSRN]
Claudia Geiringer & Andrew Geddis, Judicial Deference and Emergency Power: A Perspective on Borrowdale V Director-General (October 2020) [SSRN]
Vincent Martenet, Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation of Statutes from a Comparative Perspective (September 2020) [SSRN]
David E. Adelman & Robert L. Glicksman, Judicial Ideology as a Check on Executive Power (September 2020) [SSRN]
Jonathan H. Adler & Christopher J. Walker, Nondelegation for the Delegators (September 2020) [SSRN]
Ricardo Perlingeiro, Administrative Functions of Implementation, Control of Administrative Decisions, and Protection of Rights (August 2020) [SSRN]
Executive Department
Jennifer Lee Koh, Executive Defiance and the Deportation State (December 2020) [SSRN]
Richard J. Pierce, Regulation in the Biden Administration (November 2020) [SSRN]
Frank O. Bowman III, Presidential Pardons and the Problem of Impunity (November 2020) [SSRN]
Rebecca Cho, Louis Cholden-Brown, Marcello Figueroa, Fordham Law Democracy Clinic Reports, Toward an Independent Administration of Justice: Proposals to Insulate the Department of Justice from Improper Political Interference (November 2020) [SSRN]
David Pozen & Kim Lane Scheppele, Executive Underreach, in Pandemics and Otherwise (October 2020) [SSRN]
Roy E. Brownell II, The Executive Branch’s Longstanding Embrace of Legislative Succession to the Presidency (October 2020) [SSRN]
John C. Harrison, Executive Discretion in Administering the Government’s Rights and the Delegation Problem (October 2020) [SSRN]
Lisa Marshall Manheim, Presidential Control Over Disputed Elections (September 2020) [SSRN]
Eloise Pasachoff, The President’s Budget Powers in the Trump Era (August 2020) [SSRN]
David Kenny & Conor Casey, The Resilience of Executive Dominance in Westminster Systems: Ireland 2016-2019 (2020) [SSRN]
Legislation/Statutory Interpretation
Justin Levitt, Failed Elections and the Legislative Selection of Presidential Electors (November 2020) [SSRN]
Julian R. Murphy, Legislating in Language: Indigenous Languages in Parliamentary Debate, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (November 2020) [SSRN]
Sean Farhang, Legislative Capacity and Administrative Power Under Divided Polarization (November 2020) [SSRN]
Grégoire Webber & Richard Ekins, Legislated Rights and Contemporary Constitutional Government (October 2020) [SSRN]
Paul Daly, Why Write Statutes Which Some People Cannot Read? (October 2020) [SSRN]
Michaël Lessard, A Dynamic Judicial Approach to Diachronic Legislative Integrity (October 2020) [SSRN]
Antonios E. Kouroutakis, The Henry VIII Powers in the Brexit Process: Justification Subject to Political and Legal Safeguards (October 2020) [SSRN]
Ronan Cormacain & Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus (October 2020) [SSRN]
Athanasios Psygkas, The United Kingdom’s Statutory Constitution (October 2020) [OJLS Website]
Administrative Independence
Seila Law and the Roberts Court (Articles by Josh Blackman, Jerry L. Mashaw, Jonathan H. Adler, Lisa Schultz Bressman, David A. Strauss, Markham S. Chenoweth & Michael P. DeGrandis, Patricia A. McCoy, John Harrison, Jack M. Beermann, and Timothy G. Duncheon & Richard L. Revesz), The University of Chicago Law Review Online (August 2020) [SSRN]
Ganesh Sitaraman, The Political Economy of the Removal Power, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 352 (2020) [HLR website]
Jonathan H. Adler, Conservative Minimalism and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (August 2020) [SSRN]
Administrative History
Peter L. Strauss, How the Administrative State Got to This Challenging Place (November 2020) [SSRN]
Nicholas R. Parrillo, A Critical Assessment of the Originalist Case Against Administrative Regulatory Power: New Evidence from the Federal Tax on Private Real Estate in the 1790s (2020) [SSRN]
Christine Kexel Chabot, The Lost History of Delegation at the Founding (August 2020) [SSRN]
Administrative Legal Theory
Jerry Louis Mashaw, Is Administrative Law at War with Itself? (October 2020) [SSRN]
Jacob Weinrib, Maitland’s Challenge for Administrative Legal Theory (2020) [SSRN]
Bijal Shah, Toward A Critical Theory of Administrative Law (October 2020) [SSRN]
Thomas W. Merrill, Legitimate Interpretation – Or Legitimate Adjudication? (September 2020) [SSRN]
Modes of Governance and Regulation
Daniel C. Richman, Defining Crime, Delegating Authority – How Different are Administrative Crimes? (November 2020) [SSRN]
Cary Coglianese, Gabriel Scheffler, Daniel Walters, Unrules (October 2020) [SSRN]
Jonna Gjaltema, Robbert Biesbroek & Katrien Termeer (2020) From government to governance…to meta-governance: a systematic literature review, Public Management Review, 22:12, 1760-1780 [Taylor & Francis Online]
Jack M. Balkin, How to Regulate (and Not Regulate) Social Media (September 2020) [SSRN]
Public Administration
Scott Limbocker, William G. Resh & Jennifer Selin, Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State (November 2020) [SSRN]
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar & Aziz Z. Huq, Toward the Democratic Regulation of AI Systems: A Prolegomenon (November 2020) [SSRN]
Sharon Jacobs, Agency Genesis and the Energy Transition (November 2020) [SSRN]
Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen, Martin Bækgaard, Ulrich Thy Jensen, The Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction (October 2020) [SSRN]
Darcy W E Allen, Chris Berg, Aaron M. Lane, Patrick A. McLaughlin, The Political Economy of Australian Regulatory Reform (October 2020) [SSRN]
Double Special Issue Dedicated to COVID-19 (Marc Holzer and Stephanie P. Newbold, eds.), American Review of Public Administration (August-October 2020) [SAGE Journals]
David Oliver Kasdan, “Toward a Theory of Behavioral Public Administration.” International Review of Administrative Sciences, vol. 86, no. 4, Dec. 2020, pp. 605–621 [SAGE Journals]
Luis Arroyo Jiménez, Mutual Recognition in the Spanish Multi-level Administrative State (October 2020) [SSRN]
Christopher J. Walker, Constraining Bureaucracy Beyond Judicial Review (October 2020) [SSRN]
John W. Bagby & Nizan Geslevich Packin, RegTech and Predictive Lawmaking: Closing the RegLag between Prospective Regulated Activity and Regulation (October 2020) [SSRN]
doaa Abu Elyounes, ‘Computer Says No!’: The Impact of Automation on the Discretionary Power of Public Officers (September 2020) [SSRN]
Anthony Moffa, Word Limited: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between the Length, Resiliency, and Impact of Federal Regulations (August 2020) [SSRN]
Gabriel Scheffler, Failure to Capture: Why Business Does Not Control the Rulemaking Process (August 2020) [SSRN]
Sofia Ranchordas, The Digitalization of Government and Digital Exclusion: Setting the Scene (August 2020) [SSRN]
Joe Tomlinson, Justice in Automated Administration (2020) [SSRN]
The Public/Private Divide
Litor, L., Menahem, G. and Bar-Mor, H. (2020) ‘The Rise of the Regulatory Constitutional Welfare State, Publicization, and Constitutional Social Rights: The Case of Israel and Britain’, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 691(1), pp. 189–205 [SAGE Journals]
Paul J. Larkin, Jr., The Private Delegation Doctrine (November 2020) [SSRN]
Stefan Renckens, Disaggregating public‐private governance interactions: European Union interventions in transnational private sustainability governance, in Regulation & Governance [Wiley Online]
Environmental Law & Regulation
Chiara Pappalardo, What a Difference a State Makes: California’s Authority to Regulate Motor Vehicle Emissions Under the Clean Air Act and the Future of State Autonomy (December 2020) [SSRN]
Richard L. Revesz, Poisoning America: The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Shell Game (November 2020) [SSRN]
Cary Coglianese & Daniel Walters, Litigating EPA Rules: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Environmental Rulemaking in the Courts (October 2020) [SSRN]
Joshua Galperin & Douglas A. Kysar, Uncommon Law: Judging in the Anthropocene (October 2020) [SSRN]
Jocelyn Stacey, The Deliberative Dimensions of Modern Environmental Assessment Law (2020) [SSRN]
Financial Regulation
Dirk A. Zetzsche, Filippo Annunziata, Douglas W. Arner & Ross P. Buckley, The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MICA) and the EU Digital Finance Strategy (December 2020) [SSRN]
Mark Fenwick & Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The Future of Finance: Why Regulation Matters (November 2020) [SSRN]
Allen N. Berger, Jin Cai, Raluca A. Roman, John Sedunov, Supervisory Enforcement Actions against Banks and Systemic Risk (November 2020) [SSRN]
Karsten Müller, Electoral Cycles in Macroprudential Regulation (November 2020) [SSRN]
Yesha Yadav, Fintech and International Financial Regulation (September 2020) [SSRN]
William Roy White, International Financial Regulation: Why it Still Falls Short (August 2020) [SSRN]
EU Administrative Law
Alberto Alemanno, Leveling the EU Participatory Playing Field: A Legal and Policy Analysis of the Commission’s Public Consultations in Light of the Principle of Political Equality (November 2020) [SSRN]
Font, N. and Pérez-Durán, I. (2020) ‘The information phase of accountability: The role of management boards in European Union agencies’, International Review of Administrative Sciences [SAGE Journals]
Cristina Fasone & Peter L. Lindseth, Europe’s Fractured Metabolic Constitution: From the Eurozone Crisis to the Coronavirus Response (November 2020) [SSRN]