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The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State, at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, supports research and debate on the modern administrative state, and the constitutional issues...
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The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State, at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, supports research and debate on the modern administrative state, and the constitutional issues surrounding it. In this podcast, we’ll discuss some of the questions being debated around modern administration — some new questions, some timeless ones. And you can also get the audio from Gray Center events.
Listen to all episodes of Gray Matters at Ricochet.com.
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Listen to all episodes of Gray Matters at Ricochet.com.
24 SEP 2024 · Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Beau J. Baumann about his historical research into the Offices of Legislative Counsel. They discuss his forthcoming paper, Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism, and how Progressive reformers at the turn of the twentieth century built institutions to arrest congressional decline.
Notes:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4933206, Beau J. Baumann
https://ricochet.com/podcast/gray-matters/how-chief-justice-taft-wrote-the-famous-myers-opinion-with-robert-post/, Gray Matters
16 JUL 2024 · Jace Lington chats with Jenn Mascott about Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump. They discuss the Appointments Clause and the broader context of the debate surrounding the special counsel investigation of the former president.
Notes:
- https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24810933/cannon.pdf
- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
- https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/officers-united-states/#:~:text=Jennifer%20L.,Mascott%20*&text=For%20decades%20courts%20have%20believed,to%20major%20categories%20of%20officials.
17 MAY 2024 · This is a rebroadcast of a panel discussion from an event we co-hosted on May 15, 2024, with the Manhattan Institute and the Federalist Society. The panelists discuss whether state tort law is an appropriate tool for addressing climate change and the petition for certiorari in Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu.
Featured Speakers:
- Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- James Copland, Senior Fellow and Director of Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute
- Donald Kochan, Antonin Scalia Law School
- Jennifer Mascott, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
3 MAY 2024 · This is a rebroadcast of the Gray Center's Federal Preemption and Environmental Regulation Webinar. We hosted this event on April 29, 2024, to discuss the issues involved in two pending cases where energy companies have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the Clean Air Act preempts attempts by Honolulu, Hawaii, to redress certain climate change-related alleged injuries.
Featured Speakers:
- Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Richard Epstein, New York University
- Edmund LaCour, Solicitor General of Alabama
- Jennifer Mascott, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
- Adam White, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Notes:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K33QiNUZwU
8 MAR 2024 · Adam White and Jace Lington chat with former OIRA Administrator Paul J. Ray about his new paper, “Lover, Mystic, Bureaucrat, Judge: The Communication of Expertise and the Deference Doctrines.” In the paper, Mr. Ray critiques the expertise rationale for Chevron deference, arguing that agency employees can share much of the special knowledge they use to make decisions with reviewing courts.
Notes:
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/lover-mystic-bureaucrat-judge-the-communication-of-expertise-and-the-deference-doctrines/, Paul J. Ray
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHI_04m7PMo, October 2023, Chevron on Trial: The Supreme Court and the Future of Agency Authority and Expertise
1 MAR 2024 · The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy recently hosted a series of webinars ahead of a forthcoming symposium on Equity and the Administrative State.
This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion from February 23, 2024, about affirmative action and other ways regulators pursue equity through the administrative state featuring Ming Chen, Jesse Merriam, and Bijal Shah, moderated by Kmele Foster.
Notes:
https://youtu.be/GXhuvzNuuDU
23 FEB 2024 · The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy recently hosted a series of webinars ahead of a forthcoming symposium on Equity and the Administrative State.
This episode of Gray Matters is a panel discussion about the use of racial classifications to make public policy and how race has affected the character of American institutions featuring David Bernstein, Jonathan Berry, and Joy Milligan, moderated by Renée Landers.
Notes:
- Watch a https://share.descript.com/view/ymdEdxmndnM
16 FEB 2024 · Jace Lington chats with Scalia Law Professor Donald J. Kochan about Florida and Disney. They discuss his recent paper applying public choice theory to Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement Act of 1967 and why the special treatment Disney received from the state is not a good model for state and local regulation.
Notes:
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698563, Donald J. Kochan
9 FEB 2024 · Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Law Professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman about lingering issues following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Biden v. Nebraska student loan case. They discuss a recent paper Shugerman presented at a Gray Center research roundtable, “Biden v. Nebraska: The New State Standing and the (Old) Purposive Major Questions Doctrine.”
Notes:
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/biden-v-nebraska-the-new-state-standing-and-the-old-purposive-major-questions-doctrine/, Jed Handelsman Shugerman
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4531721, Jed Handelsman Shugerman and Jodi L. Short
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/standing-without-injury/, Jonathan H. Adler
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/an-originalist-defense-of-the-major-questions-doctrine/ Michael D. Ramsey
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4437332, Thomas W. Merrill
- https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4401&context=faculty_scholarship, Gary S. Lawson
- https://www.nyujll.com/volume-16/my-colleague-steve-williams-bbpt4-c56nl-px3t8-bf7gd-pyjsj-9bc38-2zf3c-wy82l-9nejc-gdazh-ma64r-bzser-23cs8-3e4yl-lz96b-xwkse, Lisa Heinzerling
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-new-purpose-and-intent-in-major-questions-cases/, Anita S. Krishnakumar
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-major-questions-doctrine-unfounded-unbounded-and-confounded/, Ronald M. Levin
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-minor-questions-doctrine/, Aaron L. Nielson
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-major-questions-doctrine-outside-chevrons-domain/, Adam R.F. Gustafson
2 FEB 2024 · Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Law Professor Michael D. Ramsey about how originalists can defend the major questions doctrine as a substantive canon of interpretation. He examines post-ratification court practice and other substantive canons designed by judges to minimize the harms of judicial error when interpreting ambiguous statutes. Ramsey recently presented a paper on this subject at a Gray Center research roundtable.
Notes:
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/an-originalist-defense-of-the-major-questions-doctrine/ Michael D. Ramsey
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4437332, Thomas W. Merrill
- https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4401&context=faculty_scholarship, Gary S. Lawson
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/biden-v-nebraska-the-new-state-standing-and-the-old-purposive-major-questions-doctrine/, Jed Handelsman Shugerman
- https://www.nyujll.com/volume-16/my-colleague-steve-williams-bbpt4-c56nl-px3t8-bf7gd-pyjsj-9bc38-2zf3c-wy82l-9nejc-gdazh-ma64r-bzser-23cs8-3e4yl-lz96b-xwkse, Lisa Heinzerling
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-new-purpose-and-intent-in-major-questions-cases/, Anita S. Krishnakumar
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-major-questions-doctrine-unfounded-unbounded-and-confounded/, Ronald M. Levin
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-minor-questions-doctrine/, Aaron L. Nielson
- https://administrativestate.gmu.edu/paper/the-major-questions-doctrine-outside-chevrons-domain/, Adam R.F. Gustafson
The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State, at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, supports research and debate on the modern administrative state, and the constitutional issues...
show more
The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Administrative State, at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, supports research and debate on the modern administrative state, and the constitutional issues surrounding it. In this podcast, we’ll discuss some of the questions being debated around modern administration — some new questions, some timeless ones. And you can also get the audio from Gray Center events.
Listen to all episodes of Gray Matters at Ricochet.com.
show less
Listen to all episodes of Gray Matters at Ricochet.com.
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