Annually, advocates and governments participate in Sunshine Week—a national initiative that celebrates the laws and freedoms which allow citizens to access information about how their governments operate.
ACUS has been hard at work drafting reports and recommendations to expand access to…
After two years of extensive deliberations and public input, ACUS recently released…
The Administrative Conference of the Unites States (ACUS) mourns the passing of its Senior Fellow Robert Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro served ACUS with distinction for over a decade—first as a government member from the Department of Labor, where he held a high-ranking position in the Office of the…
ACUS initiatives promote efficiency, participation, and fairness in the administration of federal programs, and this winter, we’ve been busy revising and publishing several of our sourcebooks on…
In early 2019, ACUS will publish several new sourcebooks that will serve as invaluable resources for understanding the federal government and the diverse work of federal administrative agencies.
First, in January 2019, ACUS released the…
This article was authored by Shawne McGibbon, ACUS’s General Counsel.
ACUS held its 70th Plenary Session on December 13-14 at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. At…
This article was authored by Matthew Lee Wiener, ACUS’s Vice Chairman and Executive Director
Richard Posner once said that he was “always struck as a judge by how often legal disputes arise from errors—not policy…
This article was authored by Gavin Young, Counsel for Congressional Affairs at ACUS.
Of all of a federal agency’s activities, adjudication—with determinations that directly touch the lives and businesses of…
The Social Security Administration (SSA) proposed a rule that seeks to expand its use of video teleconference hearings…
This article was authored by Felix Bajandas, the principal court management consultant at the National Center for State Courts, and Gavin Young, Counsel for Congressional Affairs at ACUS.
This article first appeared…
