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The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law
(Harvard Law Review, 2015)
The defining feature of foreign relations law is that it is distinct from domestic law. Courts have recognized that foreign affairs are political by their nature and thus unsuited to adjudication, that state and local ...
Chevron's Mistake
(Duke Law Journal, 2009-01)
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. asks courts to determine whether Congress has delegated to administrative agencies the authority to resolve questions about the meaning of statutes that those ...
Gaming the Past: The Theory and Practice of Historic Baselines in the Administrative State
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
This article explores in detail the attributes and operation of historic baselines. That historic baselines are found throughout regulatory law is no accident. Particularly when the policy goal involves turning back the ...
Panarchy and the Law
(Ecology and Society, 2012)
Panarchy theory focuses on improving theories of change in natural and social systems to improve the design of policy responses. Its central thesis is that successfully working with the dynamic forces of complex adaptive ...
Designing Administrative Law for Adaptive Management
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)
Administrative law needs to adapt to adaptive management. Adaptive management is a structured decision-making method the core of which is a multi-step iterative process for adjusting management measures to changing ...
The Permit Power Revisited
(Duke Law Journal, 2014)
Two decades ago, Professor Richard Epstein fired a shot at the administrative state that has gone largely unanswered in legal scholarship. His target was the “permit power,” under which legislatures prohibit a specified ...