Reeve T. Bull

Reeve T. Bull is an Attorney Advisor with the Administrative Conference of the United States.  Mr. Bull currently serves as Staff Counsel to the Committee on Regulation; Mr. Bull has also served as Staff Counsel for the Committees on Judicial Review and Administration & Management.  In addition, Mr. Bull serves as ACUS's coordinator for the Council of Independent Regulatory Agencies, a group of independent regulatory agencies chaired by ACUS that meets periodically on issues of mutual interest, and is the director of the ACUS internship program.  Mr. Bull has worked on projects related to international regulatory cooperation, the use of science by administrative agencies, presidential review of agency rulemaking, cost-benefit analysis, government contractor ethics, and e-rulemaking, amongst other things.  Mr. Bull was the In-House Researcher for the Federal Advisory Committee Act project, and his report served as the basis for ACUS Recommendtaion 2011-7.  For the Spring 2013 semester, Mr. Bull is co-teaching a course on Legislation and Statutory Interpretation at George Mason University Law School with Executive Director Matt Wiener.

Mr. Bull previously worked in the private sector as an associate with the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and in government service as a law clerk to the Honorable Alvin A. Schall of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.  During his time as an associate with Gibson Dunn, Mr. Bull worked on a variety of litigation and regulatory matters. He participated in cases appearing before the United States Supreme Court, several federal Courts of Appeals, and numerous federal district courts and state trial courts. His experience spanned a variety of practice areas, including administrative, constitutional, intellectual property, antitrust, environmental, securities, and white collar criminal law. During his clerkship for Judge Schall, Mr. Bull assisted with appeals in cases spanning a variety of areas, with particular emphasis on administrative and patent law.

Mr. Bull attended law school at Duke University, where he graduated with highest honors and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He was one of two recipients of the Willis Smith Award for compiling the most outstanding academic record in the graduating class and the recipient of the James S. Bidlake Memorial Award for achieving the highest grade in his first year legal writing section. Mr. Bull also served as a Note Editor on the Duke Law Journal. Prior to law school, Mr. Bull attended the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors in Chemistry and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.