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Race And Regulation Podcast Episode 10 - Administrative Law's Racial Blind Spot, Daniel E. Ho
Race And Regulation Podcast Episode 10 - Administrative Law's Racial Blind Spot, Daniel E. Ho
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Administrative law has a racial blind spot, argues Daniel E. Ho of Stanford Law School. Judges have long set aside agency actions when government officials have failed to consider the differential impacts of their policy decisions on subgroups of business owners, park visitors, and even animals—but not when they have failed to consider differential impacts based on race or ethnicity. In this episode, Professor Ho traces how civil rights and administrative law have diverged over the past fifty years, as U.S. court decisions have removed issues of racial discrimination from administrative law’s purview. He concludes by discussing reforms that could …