Administrative Law

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Social Welfare Functions

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Social Welfare Functions

Cost-benefit analysis has become a routinized part of policymaking. Probing what justifies this methodology helps us to see how it might be improved.

Independent Regulatory Agencies Are Not Likely to Be Part of President Obama’s Midnight Rulemaking

Independent Regulatory Agencies Are Not Likely to Be Part of President Obama’s Midnight Rulemaking

A recent report suggests that unlike executive agencies, independent agencies get to continue dancing right past midnight.

Quantitative Models Predict Historic Obama Midnight Surge

Quantitative Models Predict Historic Obama Midnight Surge

Research forecasts a substantial increase in economically significant rules that would outpace that of the past three presidents’ final months.

OMB’s Resource Management Offices and Agency Policy Control

OMB’s Resource Management Offices and Agency Policy Control

Now is a good time to focus on the opportunities for the centralized control of the administrative state that the RMOs provide.

Rethinking the Compliance Curriculum

Rethinking the Compliance Curriculum

Compliance classes should differ depending on students’ career paths and types of risks the class addresses.

A Different Approach to Teaching Regulatory Law and Policy

A Different Approach to Teaching Regulatory Law and Policy

Addressing how policy and law influence regulation is a critical—and overlooked—part of regulatory curriculum.

Designing a Broader Regulatory Practice Curriculum

Designing a Broader Regulatory Practice Curriculum

Law schools need to create a comprehensive curricular path for students who are pursuing regulatory careers.

Innovations in Teaching Regulatory Law

Innovations in Teaching Regulatory Law

Legal scholars present new ways to teach students regulatory law against the backdrop of an expanding regulatory state.

Should Administrative Agencies Adopt Class Action Procedures?

Should Administrative Agencies Adopt Class Action Procedures?

Responding to significant agency backlogs, a new report recommends class action-type procedures.

Legal Adaptive Capacity and How Agencies Respond to Change

Legal Adaptive Capacity and How Agencies Respond to Change

The adaptability of the goals pursued in an agency’s organic statute influences the agency’s response to climate change.

Big-City Rules, Without Any Rules

Big-City Rules, Without Any Rules

A reformer takes on a major city bureaucracy that has grown accustomed to informal lawmaking procedures.

Improving Benefit-Cost Analysis by Making It Simpler

Improving Benefit-Cost Analysis by Making It Simpler

Earlier and less burdensome regulatory impact analyses would lead to more transparent, better regulatory decisions.