The Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable is an annual event, hosted by a rotating series of law schools, at which approximately 12 authors workshop their papers in a series of individual sessions, one for each paper, over the course of a day and a half. Each paper is introduced by a senior scholar who comments on the work and facilitates discussion of it with all participants. Papers are chosen by the multi-school organizing committee from a public call for proposals that is announced several months in advance of the event. To be eligible, authors must have less than 10 years of tenure-track teaching.
This year’s Roundtable was to be hosted in-person at Yale Law School on September 17–18, 2021. Due to University policy against in-person conferences due to COVID-19, the Roundtable has been converted to a series of virtual mini-workshops:
Mini-Roundtable 1
Myrisha S. Lewis, “Normalizing Reproductive Genetic Innovation”
Commenter: Glen Staszewski
Amy Semet, “Reforming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Post-Arthrex”
Commenter: Melissa Wasserman
Rephael Stern, “The British Origins of Informal Rulemaking: A Lost History of Anglo-American Administrative Law, 1920s-1950s”
Commenter: Emily Bremer
Extra Commenter: Nicholas Parrillo
Mini-Roundtable 2
Ashraf Ahmed, Lev Menand, and Noah A. Rosenblum, “The Tragedy of Presidential Administration”
Commenter: Jennifer Nou
Andrea Scoseria Katz and Noah A. Rosenblum, “The Origins of the Administrator-in-Chief: Myers and the Progressive Presidency”
Commenter: Jeff Pojanowski
Todd Phillips, “Commission Chairs”
Commenter: Kristin Hickman
Mini-Roundtable 3
Emily R. Chertoff, “Agency Noncompliance, Agency Culture, and Inferior Officer Discipline”
Commenter: Miriam Seifter
Kathleen Claussen, “Improvised Implementation”
Commenter: Nathan Cortez
Maria Ponomarenko, “Substance and Procedure in Local Administrative Law”
Commenter: Jerry Mashaw
Mini-Roundtable 4
Marie Boyd, “Preemption & Gender & Racial (In)equity: Why State Tort Law is Needed in the Cosmetics Context”
Commenter: Karen Tani
Shalini Bhargava Ray, “Immigration Law’s Arbitrariness Problem”
Commenter: Bernard Bell
Shalev Roisman, “Presidential Motive”
Commenter: Michael Sant’Ambrogio
Extra Commenter: Nicholas Parrillo
For questions about the Roundtable, please contact Nicholas Parrillo at nicholas.parrillo@yale.edu.
For the program of authors, paper titles, and commenters for the 2020 Roundtable, which was organized through Yale and conducted as a series of virtual mini-workshops due to COVID-19, see below.