Stack on Goodnow, Freund, Wyman and the Leg-Reg Course

Kenneth M. Stack, Vanderbilt Law School , looks back to the administrative law scholars Frank Goodnow, Ernst Freund, and Bruce Wyman for Les...

Entin on the Curious Case of the Pompous Postmaster

Among the contributions to the symposium Executive Discretion and the Administrative State in the Case Western Reserve Law Review 65 (2015...

When Omission Matters: Diverse Perspectives on the Legal History of the Administrative State

Last week we noted Mike Konczal's recent essay, " Hail to the Pencil Pusher ," which appeared in the Boston Review . Konczal,...

"Beyond the New Deal Order" Conference Program

Next week (September 24-26) the University of California, Santa Barbara hosts a conference titled " Beyond the New Deal Order ." T...

Note: Walter Gellhorn on Crowell v. Benson

Some time ago, I reported on Crowell v. Benson , 285 U.S. 22 (1932), as viewed from the docket books of Justices Pierce Butler and Owen Rob...

RFP: A History of the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

[We have the following Request for Proposals for a "book on the history of the creation and the first 25 years of the U.S. Court of App...

The JEV-Fellowship for European Administrative History

[We have the following announcement of a research fellowship in the field of European Administrative History.] At the end of 2012 Prof. Dr. ...

Nice Try, Abe!

President Lyndon Johnson, December 11, 1963 ( LC ) The other day I had some time on my hands at the National Archives and, as is my wont, st...

Stack on Wyman's "Principles of Administrative Law"

Kevin M. Stack, Vanderbilt Law , has posted Reclaiming 'The Real Subject' of Administrative Law: A Critical Introduction to Bruce W...

Parrillo on "Against the Profit Motive" on New Books in Law

Former LHB Guest Blogger Nicholas R. Parrillo, Yale Law School, discusses Against the Profit Motive:The Salary Revolution in American Gove...

The U.S. Commerce Court, 1910-1913

William Howard Taft, April 1909 ( LC ) [Here's the other essay from this year's exam in American Legal History, on a short-lived at...

Walter Gellhorn's Loyalty Board File

Walter Gellhorn (1974), UVA Law Library In my last post , I mentioned the Oversize Personnel Security Investigation Case Files, inventory A...

On YouTube: Constitutional History and the Administrative State

I mentioned a few weeks back that I was participating in a conference on The Constitution and the Administrative State: Past, Present, and F...

Estlund reviews Lee, "The Workplace Constitution"

The latest issue of the Texas Law Review includes a lengthy review of The Workplace Constitution , by recent guest blogger Sophia Z. Lee . ...

The Constitution and the Administrative State: Past, Present, and Future

I’m very pleased to participate later this week in The Constitution and the Administrative State: Past, Present, and Future, a conference, ...

Theorizing Contemporary Legal Thought

Just out in Law and Contemporary Problems is the symposium Theorizing Contemporary Legal Thought , which is guest edited by Justin Desautel...