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Fraudulent Malattributed Comments In Agency Rulemaking, Michael Herz
Fraudulent Malattributed Comments In Agency Rulemaking, Michael Herz
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A specter is haunting notice-and-comment rulemaking—the specter of fraudulent comments. The stand-out example—the apotheosis—was the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rulemaking in 2017. Well over twenty million comments were submitted, but millions of those were highly suspect. It turns out only about 800,000 of those comments were unique—that is, not written by a computer and not a pre-written form letter or variation thereof. And of the rest, perhaps half were submitted by computers (bots) using fictitious names or the names of real people, living and dead, who had no connection to the comment.
Regulation Of Emerging Risk, Matthew T. Wansley
Regulation Of Emerging Risk, Matthew T. Wansley
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Why has the EPA not regulated fracking? Why has the FDA not regulated e-cigarettes? Why has NHTSA not regulated autonomous vehicles? This Article argues that administrative agencies predictably fail to regulate emerging risks when the political environment for regulation is favorable. The cause is a combination of administrative law and interest group politics. Agencies must satisfy high, initial informational thresholds to regulate, so they postpone rulemaking in the face of uncertainty about the effects of new technologies. But while regulators passively acquire more information, fledgling industries consolidate and become politically entrenched. By the time agencies can justify regulation, the newly …
Acus - And Administrative Law - Then And Now, Michael Herz
Acus - And Administrative Law - Then And Now, Michael Herz
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The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) both shapes and reflects the intellectual, policy, and practical concerns of the field of administrative law. Its recommendations are therefore a useful lens through which to view that field. Also, because of an unfortunate hiatus, ACUS has gotten underway not once but twice. Those two beginnings provide a kind of natural experiment, and they make a revealing contrast. This article traces the transformations of American administrative law, as well as the field’s perpetual concerns, by comparing the initial recommendations of ACUS 1.0 (1968 to 1970) with the initial recommendations of ACUS 2.0 …
Cost-Benefit Analysis As A Commitment Device, Matthew Wansley
Cost-Benefit Analysis As A Commitment Device, Matthew Wansley
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Cost-benefit analysis does not age well. As scientific understanding of health, safety, and environmental risks accumulates over time — and as the technology to mitigate those risks becomes more affordable — the assumptions underlying a rule’s cost-benefit analysis obsolesce. Yet because of agency inaction, rulemaking ossification, and inattention to priority setting, outdated rules persist. In order to combat obsolescence, agencies should use cost-benefit analysis as a commitment device. When an agency analyzes a rule, it should precommit to subsequently adopting a more stringent rule than the one it initially promulgates, if and when a private actor credibly demonstrates that the …
Technology As A Driver Within Agencies - The Internet Change Everything, Michael Herz
Technology As A Driver Within Agencies - The Internet Change Everything, Michael Herz
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Rulemaking As Politics, Thirty Years On, Michael Herz
Rulemaking, Michael Herz
Rulemaking, Michael Herz
Rulemaking, Michael Herz
Reading The Clean Air Act After Brown & Williamson, Michael Herz
Reading The Clean Air Act After Brown & Williamson, Michael Herz
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