THE APA’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD

Final copies of the below papers are published in Volume 28:2 of the George Mason Law Review

Introduction: A Symposium for the Administrative Procedure Act’s 75th Anniversary
Adam White, Co-Executive Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Rulemaking Then and Now: From Management to Lawmaking
Ronald A. Cass, Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law; Distinguished Senior Fellow, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State; Senior Fellow, International Centre for Economic Research; and President, Cass & Associates, PC

Why We Need Federal Administrative Courts
Michael S. Greve, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School

Avoiding Authoritarianism in the Administrative Procedure Act
Kathryn E. Kovacs, Professor, Rutgers Law School, the State University of New Jersey

Three Wrong Turns in Agency Adjudication
Aaron L. Nielson, Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University

Agency Adjudication: It Is Time to Hit the Reset Button
Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, George Washington University

The Decision of 1946: The Legislative Reorganization Act and the Administrative Procedure Act
Joseph Postell, Associate Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College

The Origins of the APA: Misremembered and Forgotten Views
Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School

The Impossibility of Legislative Regulatory Reform and the Futility of Executive Regulatory Reform 
Stuart Shapiro, Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

The Administrative Procedure Act at 75: Observations and Reflections
Paul R. Verkuil, Senior Fellow, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State; Former Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States; and President Emeritus of the College of William & Mary

The Lost World of the Administrative Procedure Act: A Literature Review
Christopher J. Walker, John W. Bricker Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; and Chair, American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice