Guidance Documents

New research highlights the unique challenges agencies face when providing individual regulatory guidance.

Agencies can increase fairness by better maintaining their enforcement manuals.

Even when agencies change or rescind guidance documents, they should be clearly labeled and readily available to the public.

FDA issues policy guidance to help medical product developers address COVID-19 viral variants.

Cooperative communication between the Internal Revenue Service and taxpayers would improve the comprehensibility of taxation.

Scholars comment on a new book that advocates greater simplicity and clarity in the expression of laws and regulations.

Federal guidance on artificial intelligence needs additions to ensure the U.S. has a seat at the international table.

A new ACUS recommendation on interpretive rules largely aligns with a prior one on policy statements.

ACUS recommends agencies take steps to make their guidance more accessible.

Scholars analyze ACUS recommendations addressing public access to guidance, ALJ hiring procedures, and interpretive rules.

The Congressional Review Act restores notions of separation of powers and empowers private parties affected by regulation.

Research fellow argues that a recent OMB memo could improve regulatory lawmaking.