By Paul R. Verkuil and Reeve T. Bull
On November 19–20, 2014, Administrative Conference Chairman Paul Verkuil and Attorney Advisor Reeve Bull participated in a workshop hosted by the George Washington…
It was a pleasure to participate in the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center's recent workshop, …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014
Megan Kindelan
Communications Director
202.480.2091
mkindelan@acus.gov
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Blog Post Co-Authored by Amber Williams and Megan Gibson:
The Office of Medicare Hearing Appeals (OMHA), located in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is tasked with administering a national hearing program for Medicare…
People like to say that they were “present at the creation” of something. I wasn’t present at the creation of the Administrative…
Blog Post Co-Authored by Amber Williams and Megan Gibson:
For the first time in the National Labor Relations Board’s history, a witness participated in a hearing via video teleconferencing (VTC). At the time of the hearing, the witness resided in Madrid, Spain, and had no…
Today, the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) published its final rule on incorporation by reference. See Incorporation by Reference, 79 Fed. Reg. 66,267 (Nov. 7, 2014…
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) was established by statute in 1964 as a means of bringing together the best thinking from the public and private sectors to find ways to improve the functioning of federal agency programs. A full-time staff, currently only 15 people…
Celebrating ACUS’s 50th anniversary happily coincides with a major 40-year milestone for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the focus of much of my career in Administrative Law…
Administrative law scholars have long analogized the relationship between Congress and federal agencies to that between a principal and agent in commercial law. Nevertheless, few have undertaken detailed empirical analysis examining the faithfulness of bureaucratic “agents” in executing…