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All the Sovereign's Agents: The Constitutional Credentials of Administration 所有君主的代理人:行政的宪法证书
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3813904
Katharine Jackson
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引用次数: 1
Private Enforcement 私人执法
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.4337/9781781000564.00016
Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang, H. Kritzer
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引用次数: 25
Valuing Density: An Evaluation of the Extent to which American, Australian, and Canadian Cities Account for the Climate Benefits of Density through Environmental Review 重视密度:通过环境评价对美国、澳大利亚和加拿大城市考虑密度气候效益程度的评估
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3873479
A. Minelli, Sara Savarani, Danielle H. Spiegel-Feld, K. Wyman
{"title":"Valuing Density: An Evaluation of the Extent to which American, Australian, and Canadian Cities Account for the Climate Benefits of Density through Environmental Review","authors":"A. Minelli, Sara Savarani, Danielle H. Spiegel-Feld, K. Wyman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3873479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3873479","url":null,"abstract":"This study looks at the extent to which major cities in the United States, Australia, and Canada assess the climate impacts of densification through the environmental review process. Research indicates that greater urban density is associated with lower household greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in high GDP countries. Yet there is reason to believe that cities may be taking a parochial approach to evaluating the climate impacts of rezonings in their environmental reviews that fails to consider the environmental costs of maintaining low density. In this study, we survey the legal and policy frameworks governing the environmental review in American, Australian, and Canadian cities to determine the extent to which they consider and analyze the GHG benefits of land use changes that increase urban density. We also analyze environmental review documents for proposals to increase residential density in cities to determine the extent to which policy makers have incorporated empirical knowledge regarding the relationship between density and GHGs emissions into their environmental reviews of proposed land use changes. We find that very few cities of those we surveyed use a formal environmental review process for analyzing the GHG impacts of land use changes. In addition, the small number of cities in our survey that analyze the GHG implications of land use changes do not appear to comprehensively consider the broader GHG benefits of densification. In fact, cities that assess the GHG impacts of zoning changes appear more likely to consider densification as causing climate harms rather than climate benefits.","PeriodicalId":233762,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115436789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Retiring ‘No Look’ Judicial Review in Agency Cases Involving Science 在涉及科学的机构案件中取消“不看”司法审查
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2021-01-14 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3766372
E. Elliott
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Section 13(b) of the FTC Act at the Supreme Court: The Middle Ground 联邦贸易委员会法案第13(b)条在最高法院:中间立场
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2020-12-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3750787
H. Beales, B. Mundel, T. Muris
{"title":"Section 13(b) of the FTC Act at the Supreme Court: The Middle Ground","authors":"H. Beales, B. Mundel, T. Muris","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3750787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3750787","url":null,"abstract":"In 1981, while in the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, two of the authors were instrumental in initiating the FTC's fraud program, relying on Section 13(b)'s authority to obtain a permanent injunction to seek equitable relief, including asset freezes and consumer redress. The fraud program has become a mainstay of the Commission's consumer protection program, and the agency now coordinates local, state, national, and international agencies to fight the many faces of fraud. When the Obama Administration claimed that 13(b) could be used beyond fraud cases, an authority that all previous Commissions believed they lacked, we warned that this overreach could threaten the heretofore uncontroversial fraud program. A case currently before the Supreme Court challenges the FTC' s ability to obtain monetary relief under 13(b) in any circumstances, which we call the Never position. The Commission takes the opposite extreme, arguing that monetary relief is available in any case it chooses, which we term the Always position. We argue that both positions are wrong. Among other problems, the Never position would terminate the fraud program, ending 40 years of successful use of an important, practical solution to one of the major problems that consumers face, with no clear evidence that the Commission has exceeded its authority. The Always position ignores both the text of Section 13(b), which limits permanent injunctions to \"proper cases,\" and the statutory structure, which itself limits the FTC's ability to obtain monetary relief. Congress originally considered Section 13(b) as part of a comprehensive set of changes to enhance the Commission's authority, which also included what became Section 19 two years later. That section limits the FTC's ability to obtain monetary relief to conduct that a reasonable person would know was dishonest or fraudulent. <br><br>We argue instead for a middle ground. Because Section 19 requires separate administrative proceedings before the Commission can seek monetary relief, the money would be gone without the ability to obtain extraordinary relief, especially an ex parte asset freeze. It therefore cannot be used to attack fraud successfully. The middle ground would allow 13(b) to be used against fraudsters. Another advantage of the middle ground is that it respects the original vision of the FTC that there are some law violations for which monetary relief is inappropriate, a view codified in both 1914 and again in Section 19 in 1975. For example, complex issues of advertising substantiation, as well as issues about the adequacy of disclosures to consumers, about which reasonable experts often disagree, should normally be resolved through the administrative process. To subject all violations of the FTC Act routinely to potential monetary relief risks chilling the provision of truthful and useful information, as well as other conduct beneficial to consumers.","PeriodicalId":233762,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130769032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Interagency Coordination on Labor Regulation 劳动法规的跨部门协调
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2020-12-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3741536
Hiba Hafiz
{"title":"Interagency Coordination on Labor Regulation","authors":"Hiba Hafiz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3741536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3741536","url":null,"abstract":"After 9/11, Congress, federal agencies, and scholars exposed the devastating results of the national security agencies’ failure to coordinate. The financial crisis has been linked to similar coordination failures in the context of interagency banking regulation, with jurisdictional gaps and blind spots resulting in failure to prevent a global recession. But despite Gilded Age-levels of inequality, little attention has focused on the failures of interagency coordination to secure Americans’ access to economic opportunity through work—whether through securing higher wages and higher union density, coordinating government enforcement to achieve redistributive goals and combat consolidation of employer buyer power, or overcoming systemic abuses in employers’ wage theft, discrimination, and worker mistreatment. The crippling spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demands that now, more than ever, agencies coordinate in their regulation of labor markets to accomplish micro- and macroeconomic policy outcomes. \u0000 \u0000This Essay is a component of a larger project that seeks to document federal agencies’ selective coordination along six core policy vectors that impact work- or income-based avenues towards equality—macroeconomic, microeconomic, institution-building, industry-specific, anti-subordination, and democratic/expressive policy. It presents the results of a novel data set collecting and systematizing existing Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) authorized by the core agencies involved in labor market regulation: the Department of Labor (DOL), its sub-agencies, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Justice-Antitrust Division, and the Federal Trade Commission. By reviewing and hand-coding the 113 discoverable MOUs from the 1950s to the present, the Essay highlights which labor agencies coordinate most and least, what MOUs historically facilitate as a substantive and administrative matter, best practices of interagency coordination through MOUs, the network of existing institutional relationships for mobilization along the six policy vectors previously identified, and the broad scope and areas of labor market regulation on which coordination has not yet occurred. It concludes by arguing that the federal government lacks a coherent, aligned vision on labor market regulation and economic mobility through work, and proposes next steps for integrating agency coordination.","PeriodicalId":233762,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121723314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Deference is Dead (Long Live Chevron) 顺从已死(雪佛龙万岁)
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2020-08-18 DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/bdxrf
N. Richardson
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引用次数: 0
Comments on “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process” 关于“在清洁空气法规则制定过程中考虑收益和成本时提高一致性和透明度”的评论
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2020-08-03 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3923773
M. Luttrell
{"title":"Comments on “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process”","authors":"M. Luttrell","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3923773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3923773","url":null,"abstract":"Were this anti-regulatory NPRM—or any logical outgrowth of it—to be finalized, it would result in repeated violations of the Clean Air Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. The problematic methodologies being codified in this NPRM would often generate nonsensical, arbitrary results, and would promote multiple biases that undermine the goals of the Act.It is unfortunate that the Trump administration is rushing out a slew of standards during a national pandemic. The stakeholders that normally would organize and engage to protest these actions through participation in notice-and-comment rulemaking and strategic litigation are spread thin, and many do not have sufficient time to participate meaningfully. Women, in particular, have been negatively impacted by the lack of normal childcare supports during this time, and COVID-19 infections have disproportionately affected people of color. Many organizations have requested an extension of time to respond to this rulemaking;unfortunately, EPA provided only a week’s extension, leaving a comment period of less than 60 days. Under the circumstances, this refusal to allow adequate time for the public to review and critique the proposed econometric and scientific methodologies—which are to be applied to a diversecollection of very complicated provisions—was unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious.And the stakes here are incredibly high. Consider PM 2.5 pollution, which causes tens of thousands of excess deaths every year. Virtually any CAA regulation that reduces any type of air pollution will—intentionally or not—reduce the number of fatalities that result from exposure to PM 2.5. The issue of how we value this human impact of pollution regulation and deregulation is far too important to be given such rushed treatment. Rather than carefully consider the best way to conduct an econometric analysis—if one is even appropriate—or the best way to use risk assessment data, the Trump EPA seems instead to be intent on codifying a set of biased methodologies while it still has control of the agency. If successful, the outcome will be dramatic—a thumb on the scale in favor of weaker standards, with millions of undercounted and systematically undervalued human lives hanging in the balance.This rulemaking is an effort to use a general authorization to issue CAA regulations to enable the EPA to override the more specific provisions of the CAA that limit or prohibit certain considerations. This is not a legitimate use of section 301(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act. Many of the regulatory analyses being “standardized” with this rulemaking did not begin to gain traction in the environmental context until after the CAA had been enacted. It is thus unsurprising that they often do not square well with the objectives, substance, and procedure actually laid out in the CAA. To overlay the methodologies advanced in this NPRM over the entire mass of diverse CAA provisions would re-write those provisions to favor factors that are curr","PeriodicalId":233762,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132948997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Best Practices 最佳实践
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2020-02-25 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvp2n3x4.22
David T. Zaring
{"title":"Best Practices","authors":"David T. Zaring","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp2n3x4.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n3x4.22","url":null,"abstract":"In traditional administrative law, agencies pass rules and courts review them. But what if agencies stopped acting by rule and started leading by example? With best practices rulemaking - a theoretically voluntary way of coordinating administrative action both within and across agencies - leading by example is what agencies are increasingly doing. Although best practice rulemaking has been ignored by the legal literature, regulation through best practices has increased sevenfold in the past ten years in the federal government alone, touching every aspect of administrative law. This paper describes and evaluates best practices rulemaking, tracking its origins in business management, its adoption by the public sector, and analyzing how it works in that sector, through a series of case studies. Although best practices purport to be best, there is nothing particularly best about them. The rulemaking technique is a way of obtaining common practices, not ideal ones. Accordingly, best practices rulemaking is therefore particularly useful when we want agencies to coordinate, but don't care much about the standard of coordination that they adopt. The paper concludes with a consideration of the future of best practices. As best practices rulemaking, along with other forms of horizontal, informal agency action, continues to grow, and grow apart from judicial supervision, Congress may ultimately wish to point the way to appropriate publicity and forms of consultation through an Informal Administrative Procedure Act.","PeriodicalId":233762,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131348665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Codifying the Cost-Benefit State 编纂成本-收益状态
U.S. Administrative Law eJournal Pub Date : 2019-08-29 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3449229
Brian F. Mannix, B. C. Dooling
{"title":"Codifying the Cost-Benefit State","authors":"Brian F. Mannix, B. C. Dooling","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3449229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3449229","url":null,"abstract":"Almost fifty years of presidential direction and agency practice, combined with ten years of increasing encouragement from the Supreme Court, suggest that the cost-benefit state has not only arrived, but is well past its introductory season. Benefit-cost balancing is now a dominant paradigm in administrative law for evaluating federal agencies’ exercise of delegated regulatory discretion. In response to increased scrutiny upon judicial review, agencies have taken steps to firm up their benefit-cost analyses. Still, despite multiple Executive Orders and supplementary guidance, neither executive nor legislative action has produced a clear set of justiciable standards against which courts can evaluate agency analyses for adequacy. \u0000 \u0000Some agencies have recently initiated rulemakings to codify their own analytical procedures under particular laws. While this statute-by-statute interpretive approach may be useful, it is unlikely to provide consistency across government or broadly-applicable tools for courts to use in varying regulatory domains. The time might be right to develop judicially-enforceable, government-wide standards for the use of benefit-cost analysis in rulemaking. \u0000 \u0000Others have examined theories of judicial authority to require and to review agency benefit-cost balancing in rulemaking. In this article we focus instead on the executive’s authority to write a cross-government “rule-on-rules” to govern regulatory analysis, including benefit-cost analysis and the courts’ authority to enforce such a rule. While such a rule would probably lack direct statutory authorization under current law, we offer the example of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations, which govern agencies’ use of Environmental Impact Statements, to illustrate how the absence of express statutory authority is not necessarily fatal to the project, particularly when it promises to produce tools that judges will find useful in carrying out their Article III responsibilities. \u0000 \u0000In Section I, we review the rise of the cost-benefit state as a result of its development in the executive branch and its treatment by the courts. In Section II, we examine theories of judicial authority to require benefit-cost analysis (BCA). Section III describes a nascent efforts by one agency to codify its own use of BCA, presents the question of whether a broader, cross-cutting “rule-on-rules” that lacks clear statutory authority would be judicially enforceable, and describes the CEQ analog as a potential precedent. In Section IV, we review the constitutional authorities that might support a cross-cutting BCA rule, and present two theories to support judicial enforcement of such a rule.","PeriodicalId":233762,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129789274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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