2021 Chicago-Kent Law Review Fall Symposium
This program is not available for credit.
- Speakers:
- Emily Bremer | Blake Emerson | Joanna Grisinger | Hal J. Krent | Sophia Z. Lee | Douglas Letter | Ronald Levin | Jonathan P. Masur | Nicholas Parrillo | Reuel Schiller
- Duration:
- 1:00 - 5:00 PM
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- Classroom
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Description
Join Chicago-Kent Law Review for an afternoon examining the Administrative Procedures Act in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of its enactment. Keynote guest Doug Letter, General Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, will discuss the role of the APA in congressional litigation against the Trump administration. This virtual conference will feature presentations from leading administrative law scholars around the country addressing the continuing importance of the APA, including the distinction between law and policy in the Act, the advantages of evolutionary versus originalist interpretation, and exploring the role of the APA in the advancement of civil rights. THIS SYMPOSIUM IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CLE CREDIT.
Speaker
Emily Bremer Related Seminars and Products
Associate Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame Law School
Emily Bremer teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, regulatory process, and civil procedure. Her scholarship focuses primarily on matters of procedural design, with a recent focus on the legal requirements and policy considerations that apply in administrative adjudication. Bremer serves as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), a small, free standing federal agency charged with improving government processes, procedures, and performance. She is a regular contributor to the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice & Comment blog. Bremer earned her B.A. in Politics, magna cum laude, from New York University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was the Executive Notes Editor of the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and a student editor for the International Journal of Constitutional Law. After law school, she clerked for Hon. Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also practiced law as an associate in the telecommunications and appellate litigation group of Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, DC and served as the Research Chief of ACUS (after first joining the agency as an Attorney Advisor).
Blake Emerson Related Seminars and Products
Assistant Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
Blake Emerson is Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Emerson’s research examines the normative and historical foundations of American public law. He draws on resources from political theory and American political development to understand the structure and purpose of the regulatory state. Emerson’s book, The Public’s Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2019), offers a history and theory of democracy in the American administrative state. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Yale Journal on Regulation, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Minnesota Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, and Review of Politics, among other publications. Emerson received his B.A. magna cum laude with Highest Honors from Williams College, his Ph.D. with Honors from Yale University, and his J.D. with Honors from Yale Law School.
Joanna Grisinger Related Seminars and Products
Associate Professor of Instruction | Director of Legal Studies
Northwestern University
Joanna Grisinger is Associate Professor of Instruction at the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern University, where she teaches a variety of undergraduate courses including Legal and Constitutional History of the United States, Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, Law and Society, and Law & the Civil Rights Movement. She received her J.D. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago; her research focuses on the modern administrative state in twentieth-century U.S. legal and political history. Her first book, The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics Since the New Deal (Cambridge University Press, 2012), offers a political history of administrative law reform. Her current research explores public interest participation in administrative decision making; she is currently working on a book manuscript that examines airline regulation as a site for mobilization around issues of race and apartheid, disability, consumer rights, and the environment. Prof. Grisinger co-edits (with Deborah Dinner) the Legal History section of Jotwell.com, and is the advisory editor on Law and Criminology for the American National Biography Online. She is chair of the ASLH Standing Committee on the Annual Meeting and a past member of the American Society for Legal History’s board of directors. She is a co-founder (with Kimberly Welch, Kathryn Schumaker, and Logan Sawyer) of the Law & History Collaborative Research Network (established 2013) within the Law and Society Association.
Hal J. Krent Related Seminars and Products
Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Harold Krent graduated from Princeton University and received his law degree from New York University School of Law, where he served as notes editor of the Law Review and garnered several awards for excellence in writing. Krent clerked for the Honorable William H. Timbers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then worked in the Department of Justice for the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division, writing briefs and arguing cases in various courts of appeals across the nation. He has been teaching full-time since 1987 and has focused his scholarship on legal aspects of individuals' interaction with the government. His book, Presidential Powers, is a comprehensive examination of the president's role as defined by the U.S. Constitution and judicial and historical precedents. In addition, Krent has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has also litigated numerous cases with students on behalf of indigent prisoners. Krent joined the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty in 1994. He was appointed associate dean in 1997 and interim dean in 2002 before assuming the deanship on January 1, 2003. He continued is his role as dean until July 31, 2019.
Sophia Z. Lee Related Seminars and Products
Professor of Law and History
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Sophia Lee is a legal historian whose scholarship synthesizes constitutional and administrative law. Her book, The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right, is a history of administrative agencies’ role in shaping constitutional law and as a site for civil rights and labor advocacy. Other work on administrative constitutionalism appears in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Virginia Law Review, and American Administrative Law from the Inside Out (Jerry Mashaw and Nicholas Parrillo, eds.). She is currently working on a history of constitutional privacy.
Douglas Letter Related Seminars and Products
General Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives
Mr. Letter joined the Office as General Counsel in January 2019. In February 2018, after a 40-year career, Mr. Letter retired from the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served as Director of the Civil Division Appellate Staff. During his time at the Department of Justice, he also served as Associate Counsel to President Bill Clinton, as Deputy Associate Attorney General, and as Senior Counselor to the Attorney General. Immediately prior to joining the Office of General Counsel, Mr. Letter was a Senior Litigator at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Letter has presented over 200 oral arguments, including before the U.S. Supreme Court and various federal appellate and district courts. He received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley Law School in 1978 and his bachelor of arts degree in American history from Columbia University in 1975.
Ronald Levin Related Seminars and Products
William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law
Washington University School of Law
Ronald M. Levin specializes in administrative law and has published widely in that field. He has testified before Congress on regulatory reform issues, and participates actively in the work of the American Bar Association and the Administrative Conference of the United States. Professor Levin’s coauthored books on administrative law include a casebook and a student text. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on administrative law topics, including judicial review, rulemaking, and legislative reform of the regulatory process. He also has written about the law of lobbying and legislative ethics. Professor Levin has been active in the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice for more than three decades and served as its Chair in 2000-01. He currently represents the Section in the ABA House of Delegates. He is a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States and has chaired its Judicial Review Committee. Before joining the law faculty, Professor Levin clerked for the Hon. John C. Godbold, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and practiced for three years in Washington, D.C., with the firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. He was the Associate Dean of the School of Law from 1990-1993.
Jonathan P. Masur Related Seminars and Products
John P. Wilson Professor of Law, Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics
University of Chicago Law School
Jonathan Masur received a BS in physics and an AB in political science from Stanford University and his JD from Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and for Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Masur served as Deputy Dean from 2012 to 2014 and was named the John P. Wilson Professor of Law in 2014. He has served as director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics since its founding. Masur is the author of Happiness and the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Nicholas Parrillo Related Seminars and Products
William K. Townsend Professor of Law
Yale University
Nicholas R. Parrillo is Townsend Professor of Law at Yale. He is a recipient of the ABA’s award for the year’s best scholarship in administrative law, as well as the Law and Society Association’s Hurst prize for the year’s best book in legal history, and his works have appeared in venues including the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. His empirical work provided the basis for the U.S. Administrative Conference’s best practices on the federal government’s use of guidance documents. He has testified before Congress and been an invited speaker before the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, the law-and-science committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s summit on administrative procedure.
Reuel Schiller Related Seminars and Products
The Honorable Roger J. Traynor Chair and Professor of Law
UC Hastings Law
Professor Reuel Schiller’s teaching and scholarship focuses on American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. He has written extensively about the legal history of the American administrative state, and the historical development of labor law and employment discrimination law. His most recent book, Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Award and was an Honorable Mention for the Law and Society Association’s J. Willard Hurst Award. Schiller has also received the American Bar Association, Administrative Law Section’s scholarship award and the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Professor Schiller is a co-editor of Cambridge University Press’s Studies in Legal History book series, and the convener of the American Society for Legal History’s Johnson Fellowship for first book authors. He is also serves on the editorial board of the Law and History Review. Professor Schiller studied history as an undergraduate at Yale College. He obtained his law degree and history Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. After college he worked for the City of New York on immigration, criminal justice, education, and civil rights policy. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge J. Frederick Motz of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Following his clerkship, he was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law and a Louis Prashker Teaching Fellow at St. John’s University School of Law.
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| Oct 01, 2021 @ 01:00 PM (CDT) |
Welcome + Letter Keynote Address. Speaker: Douglas Letter. THIS SESSION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CLE CREDIT
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Douglas Letter
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Total Credits: 0 Illinois | Webinar | 45 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 01, 2021 @ 01:50 PM (CDT) |
Law Review Remarks + The Evolving APA and the Originalist Challenge. Speaker: Ronald Levin. Commentator: Jonathan Masur. THIS SESSION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CLE CREDIT.
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Ronald Levin,
Jonathan Masur
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Total Credits: 0 Illinois | Webinar | 35 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 01, 2021 @ 02:30 PM (CDT) |
Turning Administrative Procedure to Racial Justice Ends + Blame (or Thank) the Administrative Procedure Act for Florida East Coast Railway. Speakers: Emily Bremer, Sophia Lee. Commentator: Nicholas Parrillo. THIS SESSION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CLE CREDIT.
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Emily Bremer,
Sophia Lee,
Nicholas Parrillo
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Total Credits: 0 Illinois | Webinar | 1 Hour 15 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 01, 2021 @ 03:50 PM (CDT) |
A Trip to the Border: Legal History and APA Originalism. Speaker: Reuel Schiller. Commentator: Joanna Grisinger. THIS SESSION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CLE CREDIT.
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Reuel Schiller,
Joanna Grisinger
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Total Credits: 0 Illinois | Webinar | 30 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oct 01, 2021 @ 04:25 PM (CDT) |
“Policy” in the Administrative Procedure Act: Implications for Delegation, Deference, and Democracy + Closing Remarks. Speaker: Blake Emerson. Commentator: Harold Krent. THIS SESSION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CLE CREDIT.
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Blake Emerson,
Hal Krent
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Total Credits: 0 Illinois | Webinar | 35 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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