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Judicial Review Of Agency Benefit-Cost Analysis, W. Kip Viscusi, Caroline Cecof
Judicial Review Of Agency Benefit-Cost Analysis, W. Kip Viscusi, Caroline Cecof
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article evaluates judicial review of agency benefit-cost analysis ("BCA") by examining a substantial sample of thirty-eight judicial decisions on agency actions that implicate BCA. Essentially, the Administrative Procedure Act tasks federal courts with ensuring that federal agency action is reasonable. As more agencies use BCA to justify their rulemakings, the court's duty often requires judges to evaluate the reasonableness of agency BCAs. In this Article, we discuss the challenges that trigger judicial review of agency BCAs and the standards that govern the review. We then present specific examples of how courts analyze BCAs. Overall, we find many examples of …
An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule Of Law In The Administrative State, Kevin M. Stack
An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule Of Law In The Administrative State, Kevin M. Stack
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Essay offers a specification of the rule of law's demands of administrative law and government inspired by Professor Peter L. Strauss's scholarship. It identifies five principles'authorization, notice, justification, coherence, and procedural fairness which provide a framework for an account of the rule of law's demands of administrative governance. Together these principles have intriguing results for the evaluation of administrative law. On the one hand, they reveal rule-of-law foundations for some contested positions, such as a restrictive view of the President's power to direct subordinate officials and giving weight to an agency's determination of the scope of its own authority. …
The Origins Of Legislation, Ganesh Sitaraman
The Origins Of Legislation, Ganesh Sitaraman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Although legislation is at the center of legal debates on statutory interpretation, administrative law, and delegation, little is known about how legislation is actually drafted. If scholars pay any attention to Congress at all, they tend to focus on what happens after legislation is introduced, ignoring how the draft came to exist in the first place. In other words, they focus on the legislative process, not the drafting process. The result is that our account of Congress, the legislative process, and the administrative state is impoverished, and debates in statutory interpretation and administrative law are incomplete. This Article seeks to …