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The Humbugs Of The Anti-Regulatory Movement, Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman
The Humbugs Of The Anti-Regulatory Movement, Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is so hard to get beyond cynicism these days. Even a symposium devoted to this goal has, as reflected in the articles by Professors Cynthia Farina, Jeffrey Rachlinski, and Mark Seidenfeld, succeeded primarily in suggesting that regulators are not so much selfish as they are obtuse, stubborn, and sometimes downright dumb. Undoubtedly this is true some of the time. But Farina, Rachlinski, and Seidenfeld want to convince us that it is true enough of the time to warrant quite large-scale solutions. In this Comment, we take issue with this pessimistic assessment of regulatory behavior by discrediting the most prominent …
Administrative Adjudication In Kentucky: Ethics And Unauthorized Practice Considerations, Richard H. Underwood
Administrative Adjudication In Kentucky: Ethics And Unauthorized Practice Considerations, Richard H. Underwood
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article is an extended version of a presentation I made at a training course for hearing officers sponsored by the Office of the Attorney General, Division of Administrative Hearings. In my original presentation, I was asked to focus on the ethics of the administrative adjudicator. I was asked to answer some specific questions, which I will include here for the reader's benefit. In this more complete treatment, I would also like to discuss the ethics of lawyers and other representatives appearing before administrative agencies.
The Kentucky Courts had begun to "judicialize" the administrative hearing process in the early 1970's, …