Rediscovering the APA

Evan D. Bernick, Envisioning Administrative Procedure Act Originalism, 70 Admin. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2018), available at SSRN.

Jeffrey Pojanowski

Forty years ago, then-Professor Antonin Scalia published Vermont Yankee: The APA, the D.C. Circuit, and the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court Review. There, the future Justice both chastised the D.C. Circuit for ignoring the text of the APA (Administrative Procedure Act) and offered a “lament” about how faithful judicial adherence to the original public meaning of that foundational statute could not […]