This project explores agencies’ use of administrative judges (AJs), who preside over hearings outside of those governed by the Administrative Procedure Act. It studies the use of AJs across… Read more »
Recommendation 2020-3, Agency Appellate Systems – offers agencies best practices to improve administrative review of hearing-level adjudicative… Read more »
Recommendation 2011-4 – Agency Use Of Video Hearings: Best Practices And Possibilities For Expansion addresses best practices for the use of video hearings by… Read more »
Recommendation 2016-2 – Aggregation of Similar Claims in Agency Adjudication provides guidance to agencies on the use of aggregation techniques to resolve similar claims… Read more »
Recommendation 2023-5, Best Practices for Adjudication Not Involving an Evidentiary Hearing. This recommendation examines the wide range of procedures that agencies… Read more »
Recommendation 2014-7 – Best Practices for Using Video Teleconferencing for Hearings offers practical guidance regarding how best to conduct video hearings, and addresses… Read more »
Recommendation 2015-3 – Declaratory Orders identifies contexts in which agencies should consider the use of… Read more »
Recommendation 2018-3 – Electronic Case Management in Federal Administrative Adjudication offers guidance for agencies considering whether and how to implement an… Read more »
Recommendation 2016-4 – Evidentiary Hearings Not Required by the Administrative Procedure Act offers best practices to agencies for structuring evidentiary… Read more »
Recommendation 2012-3 – Immigration Removal Adjudication addresses the problem of case backlogs in immigration removals and suggests ways to enhance efficiency and… Read more »
Recommendation 2013-1 – Improving Consistency in Social Security Disability Adjudication identifies ways to improve the adjudication of Social Security disability… Read more »
Recommendation 2019-6 – Independent Research by Agency Adjudicators in the Internet Age addresses agency adjudicators’ increasing… Read more »
Recommendation 2024-7, Nonlawyer Assistance and Representation in Agency Adjudications provides best practices for agencies to increase the availability… Read more »
Recommendation 2023-4, Online Processes in Agency Adjudication – identifies best practices for developing online processes by which private parties,… Read more »
Recommendation 2022-4, Precedential Decision Making in Agency Adjudication – identifies best practices on the use of precedential decisions in agency… Read more »
Recommendation 2021-6, Public Access to Agency Adjudicative Proceedings – identifies best practices regarding when and how federal agencies provide public… Read more »
Recommendation 2020-5, Publication of Policies Governing Agency Adjudicators – encourages agencies to disclose policies governing the… Read more »
Recommendation 2018-4 – Recusal Rules for Administrative Adjudicators urges agencies to issue procedural rules governing the recusal of… Read more »
Recommendation 2024-3, Senate-Confirmed Officials and Administrative Adjudication – examines, as a legal and practical matter, whether, when, how, and… Read more »
Recommendation 2021-4, Virtual Hearings in Agency Adjudication – addresses the use of virtual hearings—that is, proceedings in which participants… Read more »