Professor David C. Vladeck · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1689 · This Article traces the successful resurrection of the Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”), a federal agency uniquely dedicated to improving the efficiency and fairness of administrative agencies to better serve the American public. The Article begins by recounting ACUS’s history of accomplishment, from... Read More

Professor Peter L. Strauss · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1668 · In his valuable contribution to this special issue, Richard Pierce underscores the role the Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”) has played over the years in encouraging on-theground fact-finding by its consultants, who have usually been academics consulted at the beginning of careers that... Read More

Professor Jonathan R. Siegel · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1642 · The Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”) has played an important role in improving the system of lawsuits against the federal government. ACUS should continue to play this role, for which it is uniquely well suited. Because it does not litigate, ACUS is free... Read More

Professor Catherine M. Sharkey · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1609 · In the United States, food and drug safety is regulated in two ways: a stringent ex ante, national regime led by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and a robust ex post system of state-law enforcement. This federalist structure of dual regulatory levels sets the... Read More

Administrative Appeals Judge Gerald K. Ray and Professor Jeffery S. Lubbers · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1575 · This Article for the special issue on the Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”) focuses on how a collaboration between ACUS and the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) has helped SSA use data analysis to bring about significant... Read More

Professor Richard J. Pierce, Jr. · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1564 · This article describes the ways in which ACUS has encouraged scholars to engage in empirical research and some of the results of those efforts. It then discusses the many important characteristics of the notice and comment rulemaking process and its effects that scholars have... Read More

Funmi E. Olorunnipa · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1555 · Although both operate in the public sphere, administrative law and public administration are two distinct disciplines and a wide gap, both in theory and in practice, exists between the two. This Article briefly examines that gap and explains how the Administrative Conference of the United States... Read More

Dean Alan B. Morrison · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1540 · The Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2014 (disregarding a fifteen-year period of congressionally induced hibernation), and the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) will celebrate a similar milestone either in 2016, fifty years after it was signed into law,... Read More

Professor Gillian E. Metzger · 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1517 · From its birth, administrative law has claimed a close connection to governmental practice. Yet as administrative law has grown and matured it has moved further away from how agencies actually function. The causes of administrative law’s disconnect from actual administration are complex and the divide... Read More