Gray Matters

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Paul Ray's Critique of the Expertise Rationale for Chevron Deference
March 08, 2024

Adam White and Jace Lington chat with former OIRA Administrator Paul J. Ray about his new paper, Lover, Mystic, Bureaucrat, Judge: The Communication of Expertise and the Deference Doctrines. In the

Equity and the Administrative State
March 01, 2024

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy recently hosted a series of webinars ahead of a forthcoming symposium on Equit

Racial Classifications and Democratic Institutions
February 23, 2024

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy recently hosted a series of webinars ahead of a forthcoming symposium on Equit

Disney v. Democracy
February 16, 2024

Jace Lington chats with Scalia Law Professor Donald J. Kochan about Florida and Disney. They discuss his recent paper applying public choice theory to Floridas Reedy Creek Improvement Act of 1967 and

Jed Shugerman's Major Questions About Emergency Powers and Standing
February 09, 2024

Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Law Professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman about lingering issues following the Supreme Courts decision in the Biden v. Nebraska student loan case. They discuss a re

Michael Ramsey’s Originalist Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine
February 02, 2024

Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Law Professor Michael D. Ramsey about how originalists can defend the major questions doctrine as a substantive canon of interpretation. He examines post-ratifica

Fixing Deference with Ronald A. Cass
January 26, 2024

Adam White and Jace Lington chat with Ronald A. Cass about the future of judicial deference to agency actions. They discuss Casss recent papers, Fixing Deference: Delegation, Discretion, and Deferen

The Future of Financial Regulation Panel 2: What Should Regulate the Financial Regulators?
December 19, 2023

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, the Mercatus Center, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of financial

The Future of Financial Regulation Panel 1: What is the Future of Financial Regulation?
December 15, 2023

The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, the Mercatus Center, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy recently hosted a full-day symposium on the future of financial

The Future of Financial Regulation: Keynote Conversation with Jelena McWilliams
December 13, 2023

This episode of Gray Matters is the first of a three-part series and came out of a recent conference we hosted about the future of financial regulation. In this episode, Adam White speaks with former