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Adrian Vermeule

Adrian Vermeule | |
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Basic facts | |
Organization: | Harvard Law School |
Location: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Education: | •Harvard College •Harvard Law School |
Adrian Vermeule is an American lawyer and professor. As of May 2024, he was the Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to his faculty profile page on the Harvard Law School website, Vermeule's areas of interest include administrative law, constitutional law, legislation, and national security law.[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Vermeule's education and career:[1]
Academic degrees:
- B.A. (1990), Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- J.D. (1993), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Professional positions and honors
- Law professor, University of Chicago
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
- Law professor, Harvard Law School
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by professor Vermeule about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.
Works related to the administrative state | |||
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Title | Source | ||
"The Deference Dilemma" | Harvard Public Law Working Paper (2023) | ||
"The Rule of Law Without Separation of Powers: Legality in the Classical Tradition" | Harvard Public Law Working Paper (2023) | ||
"The Owl of Minerva and 'Our Law'" | Ius &Iustitium (2023) | ||
"Liberalism's Good and Faithful Servants" | Compact (2023) | ||
"Interring the Nondelegation Doctrine" | Rev. de Direito Admin. (2023) | ||
"The Original Scalia" | Harvard Journal of Law (2023) | ||
"There Is No Conservative Legal Movement" | Washington Post (2022) | ||
"Argument by Slogan" | Harvard Law Journal (2022) | ||
"If every judge is an originalist, originalism is meaningless" | Washington Post (2022) | ||
"Reason and Fiat in the Jurisprudence of Justice Alito" | Harvard Law Working Paper (2022) | ||
"Supreme Court Justices Have Forgotten What the Law Is For" | New York Times (2022) | ||
"Myths of Common Good Constitutionalism" | Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (2022) | ||
"The President’s Statutory Authority Over Independent Agencies" | Georgetown Law Journal (2021) | ||
"Rules, Commands and Principles in the Administrative State" | Yale Law Journal (2021) | ||
"Why Conservative Justices Are More Likely to Defect" | Washington Post (2020) | ||
"The Right Constitutional Philosophy for This Moment" | Atlantic (2020) | ||
"The Publius Paradox" | Modern Law Review (2019) | ||
"The Morality of Administrative Law" | Harvard Law Review (2018) | ||
"Bureaucracy and Distrust: Landis, Jaffe and Kagan on the Administrative State" | Harvard Law Review (2017) | ||
"Chevron as a Legal Framework" | JOTWELL (2017) | ||
"Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases" | Wolters Kluwer (2017) | ||
"Does Michigan v. EPA Require Cost-Benefit Analysis?" | Yale Journal on Regulation, Notice & Comment (2017) | ||
"Reviewability and the 'Law of Rules': An Essay in Honor of Justice Scalia" | Notre Dame Law Review (2017) | ||
"The Exceptional Role of Courts in the Constitutional Order" | Notre Dame Law Review (2017) | ||
"The Unbearable Rightness of Auer" | University of Chicago Law Review (2017) | ||
"Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State" | Harvard University Press (2016) | ||
"Deference and Due Process" | Harvard Law Review (2016) | ||
"Leviathan Had a Good War" | JOTWELL (2016) | ||
"The New Coke: On the Plural Aims of Administrative Law" | Supreme Court Review (2016) | ||
"Thin Rationality Review" | Michigan Law Review (2016) | ||
"Libertarian Administrative Law" | The University of Chicago Law Review (2015) | ||
"Rationally Arbitrary Decisions in Administrative Law" | Journal of Legal Studies (2015) | ||
"Local and Global Knowledge in the Administrative State" | Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law (2015) | ||
"Review: Philip Hamburger, Is Administrative Law Unlawful?" | Texas Law Review (2015) | ||
"Portrait of an Equilibrium" | New Rambler Review (2015) | ||
"Optimal Abuse of Power" | Northwestern University Law Review (2015) | ||
"The Administrative State: Law, Democracy, and Knowledge" | The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution (2015) | ||
"The Constitution of Risk" | Cambridge University Press (2014) | ||
"The Law of “Not Now”: When Agencies Defer Decisions" | Georgetown Law Journal (2014) | ||
"Conventions of Agency Independence" | Columbia Law Review (2013) | ||
"Recess Appointments and Precautionary Constitutionalism" | Harvard Law Review Forum (2013) | ||
"Delegating to Enemies" | Columbia Law Review (2012) | ||
"Contra Nemo Iudex in Sua Causa: The Limits of Impartiality" | Yale Law Journal (2012) | ||
"The Executive Unbound After the Madisonian Republic" | Oxford University Press (2011) | ||
"Second Opinions and Institutional Design" | Virginia Law Review (2011) | ||
"Allocating Power Within Agencies" | Yale Law Journal (2011) | ||
"The System of the Constitution" | Oxford University Press (2011) | ||
"Regulating Political Risks" | Tulsa Law Review (2011) | ||
"Crisis Governance in the Administrative State: 9/11 and the Financial Meltdown of 2008" | University of Chicago Law Review (2009) | ||
"Chevron Has Only One Step" | Virginia Law Review (2009) | ||
"The Parliament of the Experts" | Duke Law Journal (2009) | ||
"Our Schmittian Administrative Law" | Harvard Law Review (2009) | ||
"Law and the Limits of Reason" | Oxford University Press (2008) | ||
"Massachusetts v. EPA: From Politics to Expertise" | Supreme Court Review (2008) | ||
"Originalism and Emergencies: A Reply to Lawson" | Boston University Law Review (2007) | ||
"Chevron as a Voting Rule" | Yale Law Journal (2007) | ||
"Nondelegation: A Post-mortem" | University of Chicago Law Review (2003) | ||
"Interpretation and Institutions" | Michigan Law Review (2003) | ||
"Introduction: Mead in the Trenches" | George Washington Law Review (2003) | ||
"Interring the Nondelegation Doctrine" | University of Chicago Law Review (2002) |
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
Footnotes