Process

Scholars and policymakers should recognize the democratic benefits of public comments.

Alternative agency outreach methods can garner useful feedback and reduce pressure on the notice and comment process.

Scholar warns that using artificial intelligence to revise agency rules may compromise democratic ideals.

ACUS should discourage the submission of mass comments in the notice and comment rulemaking process.

Agencies can welcome public participation while discouraging the submission of mass comments.

Mass comments policy should consider agencies’ roles as apolitical policymakers.

Experts consider the value of mass comment campaigns during notice-and-comment rulemaking.

Scholar argues that recent Supreme Court decisions create a new vision of agency accountability to the public.

Scholars explain how courts have interpreted the Administrative Procedure Act to overlook racial discrimination.

Scholar brings the focus of administrative law to the level of municipal government.

Courts should not rely on the number of public comments to assess the legality of regulations.

ACUS assesses the changing landscape of how agencies use new technologies to hold hearings.