Related Links
Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases
Casebook-Specific Websites
Below are links to websites relevant to material in the casebook, including all websites specifically mentioned in the text. The numbers to the left indicate the page number of the casebook to which the link is relevant or where the particular website is referenced.
Chapter 1
29 -- List of Government Departments and Agencies
29 -- Federal Trade Commission
Chapter 2
87 -- House of Representatives Committee on Oversight & Government Reform
88 -- One congressman's constituent services page, noting that "[o]ne of the greatest honors I have as a U.S. Congressman is helping residents of the 5th District communicate with federal agencies and resolve any difficulties with them." Here's another example.
148, 154 -- OIRA's home page
148 -- Regulatory Review dashboard
149 -- OIRA return letters
149-151 -- OIRA prompt Letters
150 -- OSHA website with information on defibrillators
154 -- Unified Agenda
154 -- Public Comments on EO 12,866 and possible amendments to it
164 -- EPA Information Quality Guidelines
Chapter 4
282 -- Photo of the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA; the sort of facility that can be a single "source" under the bubble policy.
387 -- The website of Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, which still exists. Lots of photos and information about the park and continuing battles over its use.
Chapter 6
513 ff. -- The Department of Labor's Office of Administrative Law Judges (This site includes lots of information about ALJs and the formal adjudication process within the Dep't of Labor. The link is here not because the Dep't of Labor is particularly important or distinctive, but because it happens to have a good ALJ site, and much of what the DOL ALJ's do is generalizable, so this will give you a better handle on formal adjudications.)
552 -- Today's Federal Register (or, if it's the weekend, last Friday's). Version 1.0 (see below for version 2.0).
570 -- regulations.gov, the government-wide e-rulemaking portal
571 -- regulations.gov exchange
571 -- Federal Register in XML format
571 -- "Federal Register 2.0," a more up-to-date and user-friendly on-line version of the Federal Register.
571 -- EPA's rulemaking gateway
571 -- openregs.com (George Mason University)
571 -- fedthread (Princeton University) [Note: in late July 2011, fedthread's creators announced that given how successful the Office of the Federal Register's own Federal Register 2.0 site is, fedthread was being retired.]
571 -- federalregisterwatch.com
571 -- Regulation Tracker (Justia.com)
571 -- Cornell's e-Rulemaking Initiative (including Regulation Room)
720 -- DOJ's FOIA site, a good source of FOIA data
733 -- The FTC's electronic FOIA reading room
733 -- EPA's electronic FOIA reading room
733 -- for other agency electronic reading rooms, see the link to "Federal Administrative Decisions and Other Actions" in the General Links section below
734, 736 -- White House Open Government home page
735 -- FTC open government page
735 -- EPA open government page
735 -- Department of HHS open government page
735 -- Information Technology Dashboard (OMB) (includes an "Innovations Gallery," consisting of links to other federal open government sites)
736 -- Open Government overview (White House)
736 -- Open Government Partnership, an international effort pursuant to which participating nations make open government committments
736 -- data.gov, a repository of raw data sets produced by federal agencies
736 -- FCC's ideascale page, a site for crowdsourcing FCC policy questions
738 -- FDA's new cigarette pack labels
738 -- OSHA's Integrated Management Information System establishment search page, reporting results of OSHA inspections. See also the Department of Labor's Enforcement Data page
739 -- EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) page, reporting results of EPA inspections and enforcement actions
739 -- Consumer Product Safety Commission's site for reporting, and for business to respond to reports of, unsafe products
739 -- Toxic Release Inventory data
740 -- Case studies of successful government transparency programs
Chapter 7
757 -- Social Security Administration ALJ disposition data
761 -- Immigration Judge asylum petition disposition data
General Administrative Law Links
Below are a handful of sites of general relevance to this course and the field of administrative law.
Administrative Conference of the United States -- ACUS is a federal agency charged with studying and making recommendations for improving the federal administrative process. It has a Chair, a small permanent staff, and a 100 "members" drawn from government and the private sector who vote on recommendations, which are generally influential.
Federal Administrative Decisions and Other Actions (UVA) -- A set of agency-by-agency links to actions and material of the sort not published in the Federal Register: decisions of ALJs and appeals boards, E-FOIA Reading Rooms, informal directives, etc.
Researching Administrative Law -- A useful guide to doing administrative law research prepared by the librarians at Harvard Law School.
Code of Federal Regulations -- The complete text of the C.F.R.
ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice -- The leading professional organization devoted to the field.
Administrative and Regulatory Law News -- This is a quarterly newsletter published by the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. The site has the current issues and back issues to 1996. The newsletter has brief and helpful articles on various topics, including recent cases of interest.
Penn Program on Regulation -- A blog on recent developments in the world of federal regulation.
Notice and Comment -- The blog of the ABA Ad Law Section.
