The George Mason Law Review’s First Annual Symposium on Administrative Law

Co-Hosted by the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review

September 26, 2018

8:15 – 9:00 am – Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome

Adam White, Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and Assistant Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Gabriella Mahan, Editor in Chief, George Mason Law Review

9:10 – 10:30 am – Panel 1: Agency Adjudication, the APA, and the Rule of Law – Click here to watch the video of the full panel!

Michael Asimow, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Thomas Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Michael B. Rappaport, Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, University of San Diego School of Law
Aditya Bamzai, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia, School of Law

Moderator: Adam White, Director, The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and Assistant Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

10:45 – 12:00 pm – Panel 2: Public Rights and Private Rights After Oil States – Click here to watch the video of the full panel!

Kent Barnett, Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia, School of Law
Megan La Belle, Professor of Law, Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, and Co-Director, Law and Technology Institute
David Wagner, Independent

Moderator: Aaron Nielson, Associate Professor of Law, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School

12:00 – 1:15 pm – Lunch and Keynote Discussion – Click here to watch the video of the keynote address!

Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law and Director, Classical Liberal Institute, NYU School of Law

1:25 – 1:40 pm – Remarks: Intellectual Property After Oil States – Click here to watch the video of the remarks!

Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law and Co-Founder of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

1:40 – 3:00 pm – Panel 3: Administrative Law Judges After Lucia – Click here to watch the video of the full panel! 

Jack M. Beermann, Harry Elwood Warren Scholar and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
James Heilpern, Law and Corpus Linguistics Fellow, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
Linda Jellum, Ellison Capers Palmer Sr., Professor of Law, Mercer University, School of Law
Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

Moderator: Jennifer Mascott, Assistant Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Discussed Research Papers

The following papers have been published in Volume 26:3 of the George Mason Law Review.

• Due Process for Article III—Rethinking Murray’s Lessee
  Kent Barnett, Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
• Best Practices for Evidentiary Hearings Outside the Administrative Procedure Act
  Michael Asimow, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
• Administrative Adjudication and Adjudicators
  Jack Beermann, Harry Elwood Warren Scholar and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
• Structural Protections for Individual Rights: The Indispensable Role of Article III—or even Article I—Courts in the Administrative State
  Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law and Director, Classical Liberal Institute, NYU School of Law
• Temporary Officers
  James Heilpern, Law and Corpus Linguistics Fellow, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
• “You’re Fired!” Why the ALJ Multi-Track Dual Removal Provisions Violate the Constitution and Possible Fixes
  Linda Jellum, Ellison Capers Palmer Sr. Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law
• Fair and Impartial Adjudication
  Thomas Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
• The Court Should Change the Scope of the Removal Power by Adopting a Purely Functional Approach
  Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
• Replacing Agency Adjudication with Independent Administrative Courts
  Michael B. Rappaport, Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism, University of San Diego School of Law
• It’s Saenz: Following Justice Thomas’s Teaching on the Public Rights Exception from Non-Article III Adjudication to Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities
  David Wagner, Independent