Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 5
Jonathan H. Adler Volume 71, Issue 5, 1101-1126 As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to curtail federal environmental regulation and empower the states. Has the Trump Administration made good on these pledges to reinvigorate cooperative federalism and...
Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 5
Ming Hsu Chen Volume 71, Issue 5, 1127-1142 The use of guidance documents in administrative law has long been controversial and considered to be one of the most challenging aspects of administrative law. When an agency uses a guidance document to change or make...
Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 5
Daniel A. Farber Volume 71, Issue 5, 1143-1176 President Trump has used emergency powers to achieve key parts of his policy agenda, exemplified by his travel ban, funding for the border wall, and tariffs on many imports. He has also declared the 2020 coronavirus...
Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 5
Alice Kaswan Volume 71, Issue 5, 1177-1206 The Trump Administration has been rolling back environmental and other regulations at a rapid rate. Each time, they are called upon to interpret their authorizing statutes. As they reverse previous administrations’...
Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 5
Aaron L. Nielson Volume 71, Issue 5, 1207-1224 Stable law is valuable, yet also remarkably lacking in our nation’s internet policy. Over the last two decades, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has charted a zigzagging course between heavier and lighter...
Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 5
Christopher J. Walker & Rebecca Turnbull Volume 71, Issue 5, 1225-1248 As part of the Hastings Law Journal’s Administrative Law in the Age of Trump Symposium, this Essay argues that administrative law should stop fixating on federal courts. While court-centric...
Aug 1, 2020 | Volume 71, Volume 71, Issue 5
Deborah Brundy Volume 71, Issue 5, 1249-1282 After years of enduring devastating loss of property and life, toxic air quality and intermittent power shutoffs, the public is primed for dramatic change to ensure a safe and resilient power grid. To achieve this,...
May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
David A. Dana & Hannah J. Wiseman Volume 71, Issue 4, 845-900 Since its introduction in 1967, the account of property rights formation by Harold Demsetz has pervaded the legal and economic literature. Demsetz theorized that as a once-abundant, commonly shared...
May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Brigham Daniels, Andrew P. Follett, & Joshua Davis Volume 71, Issue 4, 901-958 The 1970 Clean Air Act is arguably Congress’ most important environmental enactment. Since it became law fifty years ago, much could be and has been said about how it has changed both...
May 10, 2020 | Volume 71, Issue 4
Laura Karas, MD, MPH; Gerard F. Anderson, PhD; Robin Feldman, JD Volume 71, Issue 4, 959-974 The Supreme Court ruled in FTC v. Actavisthat a delay in generic entry may be anticompetitive when part of a patent settlement includes a large and otherwise unjustified value...
