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The C. Boyden Gray Center is housed at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. It is a leading hub of academic research and debate on legal and policy issues regarding the federal separation of powers and the administrative state. It sits at the intersection of the development of legal theory, legal practice, and legal education on constitutional questions addressing executive branch operations in relation to Congress and the judiciary.

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The Gray Center is dedicated to fostering significant legal scholarship on core issues reexamining the constitutional underpinnings of administrative governance to elevate and improve ongoing debates in the courts, in Congress, in the Executive Branch, and in the broader public.

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The Gray Center brings together scholars and practitioners from across the country to discuss cutting-edge ideas about regulatory policy and administrative governance and promotes those ideas to a broad audience.

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C. Boyden Gray

C. Boyden Gray helped to establish our Center, and since 2018, it has been named in his honor.

Ambassador C. Boyden Gray was the Founding Partner of Boyden Gray & Associates, a law and strategy firm in Washington, D.C., focused on constitutional and regulatory issues.

Mr. Gray worked in the White House for twelve years, first as counsel to the Vice President during the Reagan administration and then as White House Counsel to President George H.W. Bush.

Under President George W. Bush, Mr. Gray was U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and U.S. Special Envoy to Europe for Eurasian Energy.