ACUS hosts regular forums, workshops, and symposia that bring together federal agency officials, members of Congress and their staffs, judges, academics, and the public. Many events lay the groundwork for new projects or facilitate research on existing ones.
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As the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in federal operations accelerates, it is imperative to address the emerging challenges and opportunities that accompany this technological evolution. ACUS is convening leading experts from academia, government, and industry to discuss the related legal, ethical, and operational perspectives. These two panels aim to explore the ethical and…
Panel 1: ACUS Report on Nationwide Injunctions and Federal Regulatory Programs
Friday, September 27 (12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET)
The first panel will discuss the recently released ACUS report analyzing how nationwide injunctions and universal vacaturs impact the administration of federal regulatory programs.
Participants:
Zachary Clopton, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Mila Sohoni, Stanford Law School
Jed Stiglitz, …
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), through July and August of 2024, hosted a public forum, Recent Administrative Law Developments in the Supreme Court: What’s Next for Agencies? Across four virtual panels, ACUS members and researchers discussed the significance of Supreme Court decisions from the 2024 term for federal agencies. Information on and recordings of the panels are below.
Panel 1: Loper Bright v. Raimondo…
Join the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) in discussion with regulators from within and outside the U.S., academic scholars, and other stakeholders on the history of Executive Order 13,609, the remaining barriers that U.S. regulators face in cooperating with international counterparts, and the future of international regulatory cooperation and best practices.
Agenda:
9:30 am…
The administrative procedural practices of state and local governments might provide helpful lessons for federal agencies. As part of its statutory mission to promote improvements in the efficiency, adequacy, and fairness of federal administrative procedures, ACUS established the Roundtable on State Administrative Procedural Practices to solicit information about state- and local-government practices that federal agencies may wish to consider…
A joint event from the Administrative Conference of the United States and Legal Services Corporation
Millions of people each year navigate adjudication processes to access critical benefits and services administered by federal agencies or provided under federal programs. According to the Justice Gap study published by LSC earlier this year, 92% of the substantial legal problems facing low-income Americans—including problems accessing federally…
A joint event from the Administrative Conference of the United States and the National Academy of Public Administration
The federal government relies on political appointees and career civil servants to operate effectively. Although most positions can be filled through ordinary hiring processes or presidential or agency-head appointment, about 1,200 top leadership positions currently require presidential nomination and Senate confirmation. These…
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) hosted a forum that explored the important role of public input in federal agency rulemaking. This forum considered what types of public input are most valuable to agencies and how agencies can structure the rulemaking process to receive that input. It examined both best practices under the current notice-and-comment process and possible…
A multi-day, virtual forum in November 2021 addresses participation by underserved communities and their members in the administrative processes (including rulemaking and adjudication) by which agencies make regulatory policies. This forum addresses Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, which requires that federal agencies “pursue a comprehensive…
Program Sponsors:
Administrative Conference of the United States
Center for Progressive Reform
George Mason University's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Panel 1: Appointment and Removal of Federal Agency Adjudicators
August 6, 2020 – 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm EDT
This panel explored the constitutional issues surrounding the appointment and removal of agency adjudicators and how agencies have and could address…
Program Sponsors:
Administrative Conference of the United States
Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center
Symposium Series
Artificial Intelligence plays an increasingly important role in the administration of federal programs. Through four virtual panels this summer, ACUS and ITLP will explore current and future agency uses of AI and their interplay with administrative and constitutional law doctrines.…
Forum Transcript
Forum Press Release
Sponsors:
Administrative Conference of the United States
The George Washington University Law School
American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Program Description:
Nationwide injunctions prohibit the federal government from enforcing statutes, executive orders, and regulations against anyone, not just the particular plaintiffs who have challenged them in federal court.…
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Agenda
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Matthew L. Wiener, Vice Chairman & Executive Director, Administrative Conference of the United States
9:30 a.m. Keynote Address
Dominic J. Mancini, Deputy Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
10:15 a.m. Panel: Mass Comments in Rulemaking
Steven J. Balla, Associate Professor of Political Science,…
Agenda
9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Matthew L. Wiener, Vice Chairman & Executive Director, Administrative Conference of the United States; Co-Chair, Adjudication Committee, ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Panel I: Adjudication and the Administrative State
Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School…
Regulatory Capture Forum:
What is regulatory capture? Everyone believes it exists, but no one agrees on what it looks like. This forum brought together leading experts from government, the federal bench, the academy, and the business world to explore the concept in a more rigorous way. Panels discussed how to measure capture in the rulemaking context; whether federal agencies’ allegedly weak enforcement of regulatory crimes is evidence…
The Administrative Conference, together with the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Sections, the American Constitution Society, and The Federalist Society, is recently hosted a workshop to explore current topics at the intersection of criminal law and the administrative state.[1] Senator Mike Lee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and U.S. Sentencing Commissioner Rachel Barkow offered…