Antonin Scalia Law School

The Federal Reserve, Financial Regulation and the Administrative State

The Problem of Federal Reserve Governance: Law, Politics, and History
Peter Conti-Brown, Assistant Professor, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School (Fall 2020); Nonresident Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Meetings, Comments, and the Distributive Politics of Rulemaking
Brian Libgober, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Yale University
Why Supervise Banks? The Foundations of the American Monetary Settlement
Lev Menand, Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
Sue the Fed: The Case for Privately Enforceable Statutory Constraints on Federal Reserve Emergency Lending
J.W. Verret, Associate Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

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.

Co-directed by Professor Jennifer Mascott and scholar Adam White, the Gray Center is dedicated to fostering significant legal scholarship on core issues reexamining the constitutional underpinnings of administrative governance in order to elevate and improve ongoing debates in the courts, in Congress, in the Executive Branch, and in the broader public. The Gray Center serves as a bridge between academic research and the day-to-day litigation and deregulatory counseling efforts taking place in courtrooms across the country and on Capitol Hill. Since its founding in 2015, under the leadership of then-Professor Neomi Rao (currently on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit), the Gray Center has hosted hundreds of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers researching and debating constitutional and practical issues related to executive branch governance.