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Gray Matters

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State

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Frequency: 1 episode/15d. Total Eps: 163

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State, at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, supports research and debate on the modern administrative state, and the constitutional issues surrounding it. In this podcast, we’ll discuss some of the questions being debated around modern administration — some new questions, some timeless ones. And you can also get the audio from Gray Center events.

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Beau Baumann on the History of Legislative Constitutionalism

mardi 24 septembre 2024 • Duration 52:53

Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Beau J. Baumann about his historical research into the Offices of Legislative Counsel. They discuss his forthcoming paper, Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism, and how Progressive reformers at the turn of the twentieth century built institutions to arrest congressional decline.

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Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism, Beau J. Baumann

How Chief Justice Taft Wrote the Famous Myers Opinion, with Robert Post, Gray Matters

Jennifer Mascott on the Appointments Clause and Special Counsel Jack Smith

mardi 16 juillet 2024 • Duration 32:31

Jace Lington chats with Jenn Mascott about Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump. They discuss the Appointments Clause and the broader context of the debate surrounding the special counsel investigation of the former president.

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Fixing Deference with Ronald A. Cass

vendredi 26 janvier 2024 • Duration 58:41

Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Ronald A. Cass about the future of judicial deference to agency actions. They discuss Cass’s recent papers, “Fixing Deference: Delegation, Discretion, and Deference Under Separated Powers,” published by the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, and “Getting Deference Right,” published by National Affairs. Ron insists on the crucial distinction between court decisions on what the law means and agency decisions about policy implementation.

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Fixing Deference: Delegation, Discretion, and Deference Under Separated Powers (NYU JLL, 2023)
Getting Deference Right (National Affairs, 2024)
Loper Bright Amicus Brief, Gray Center Separation of Powers Clinic
Gray Center 2023 Rule of Law Symposium

Thinking About “The Congressional Bureaucracy,” with Abbe Gluck, Jesse Cross, and Josh Chafetz (Congress and the Administrative State Series

lundi 26 octobre 2020 • Duration 49:50

The executive branch’s bureaucracy gets a lot of attention. But Congress’s bureaucracy gets much less—yet it is extremely important. In a new Gray Center working paper titled “ The Congressional Bureaucracy,” Professors Abbe Gluck and Jesse Cross analyze several parts of Congress’s bureaucracy—some well-known, like the Government Accountability Office, and others less so, like the Office of Law... Source

Congress and Cost-Benefit Analysis, with Caroline Cecot and Ricky Revesz (Congress and the Administrative State Series)

vendredi 23 octobre 2020 • Duration 47:16

We often think of modern cost-benefit analysis as being a requirement primarily of executive orders, not statutes. Needless to say, Executive Order 12291 and 12866, and other executive orders and presidential documents, are of central importance. But Congress has done much on matters of cost-benefit analysis, too, often requiring agencies to consider costs and benefits... Source

Congressional Reform from 1981 Onward: Philip Wallach and Molly Reynolds (Congress and the Administrative State Series)

mercredi 21 octobre 2020 • Duration 51:26

In 1994, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 50 years. Upon taking office, Speaker Newt Gingrich and his colleagues undertook major institutional reforms. What do those reforms tell us about conservatives’ modern views of the Constitution’s first branch of government, and how did those reforms affect Congress’s relationship to the President and... Source

“The Decision of 1946: The Legislative Reorganization Act and the APA,” with Joseph Postell and Jeremy Rabkin (Congress and the Administrati

lundi 19 octobre 2020 • Duration 44:46

Administrative Law scholars think of 1946 as the year that Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act. But too often we neglect another major law that Congress enacted in that year: the Legislative Reorganization Act. The LRA was intended to position Congress for long-term management of the administrative state. But its proponents were disappointed to see major provisions dropped from the... Source

Joshua Wright on “Weaponizing Antitrust” Against Tech Companies

mercredi 14 octobre 2020 • Duration 54:20

Today’s guest is Professor Joshua Wright — a University Professor of Law at George Mason University, Director of the law school’s Global Antitrust Institute, a former FTC Commissioner, and one of the nation’s leading scholars of antitrust law and policy. Professor Wright and Jan Rybnicek recently co-authored an essay on recent calls to use antitrust law to regulate or break up “big tech” companies. Source

After 50 Years, What Is the National Environmental Policy Act Today?

jeudi 8 octobre 2020 • Duration 01:01:52

On September 24, 2020, the Gray Center co-hosted a live webinar, “After 50 Years, What Is the National Environmental Policy Act Today?” in partnership with Antonin Scalia Law School’s Society for Environmental and Energy Law. On January 1, 1970, President Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law. A briefly worded but powerful law, NEPA requires federal agencies to... Source

Adam Mossoff on the Innovation Economy and the Administrative State

lundi 5 octobre 2020 • Duration 59:11

Today’s guest is Professor Adam Mossoff, a leading scholar of intellectual property and Co-Founder of Scalia Law’s Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP). Three years ago, CPIP and the Gray Center co-hosted a major conference on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a new regulatory body empowered to revoke companies’ patents through an administrative process instead of a... Source