Administrative Law
Interim Report on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century, Congressional Testimony (2006)
The People's Agent: Executive Branch Secrecy and Accountability in an Age of Terrorism (with Sidney A. Shapiro), 69 Law and Contemporary Problems 99 (2006)
The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend...
Constitutional Law
The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future (2010)
Health and safety laws have always been justified as manifestations of congressional authority to regulate...
Unfunded Environmental Mandates and the "New (New) Federalism": Devolution, Revolution, or Reform, 81 Minnesota Law Review 97 (1996)
Environmental Law
The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future (2010)
Health and safety laws have always been justified as manifestations of congressional authority to regulate...
A Return to Common Sense: Protecting Health, Safety, and the Environment Through 'Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis' (with Amy Sinden, Sidney Shapiro, and James Goodwin), (2009)
Health and safety regulations have a more powerful impact on the quality of life in...
Regulatory Dysfunction: How Insufficient Resources, Outdated Laws, and Political Interference Cripple the 'Protector Agencies' (with Sidney Shapiro and Matthew Shudtz), (2009)
In the last several years, dramatic failures of the nation’s food safety system have sickened...
The Hidden Human and Environmental Costs of Regulatory Delay (with Catherine O'Neill, Amy Sinden, James Goodwin, and Ling-Yee Huang), (2009)
Each year dozens of workers are killed, thousands of children harmed, and millions of dollars...
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kinds, (2007)
By focusing on three specific case studies—mercury contamination through the human food chain, perchlorate (rocket...
Health Law
High Crimes, Not Misdemeanors: Deterring the Production of Unsafe Food, 19 Health Matrix (2010)
In the fall of 2008, Minnesota public health officials became alarmed by an unusually high...
Legal Education
The Unplanned Obsolescence of American Legal Education (with Alan D. Hornstein), 75 Temple Law Review 447 (2002)
Regulatory Law and Policy
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. 111th Congress, 1st Session (2009)., Congressional Testimony (2009)
A Return to Common Sense: Protecting Health, Safety, and the Environment Through 'Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis' (with Amy Sinden, Sidney Shapiro, and James Goodwin), (2009)
Health and safety regulations have a more powerful impact on the quality of life in...
Regulatory Dysfunction: How Insufficient Resources, Outdated Laws, and Political Interference Cripple the 'Protector Agencies' (with Sidney Shapiro and Matthew Shudtz), (2009)
In the last several years, dramatic failures of the nation’s food safety system have sickened...
Rescuing Science from Politics, JD Alumni Magazine (2009)
When researchers feel the squeeze from lawsuits and government regulators, we all suffer.
The Hidden Human and Environmental Costs of Regulatory Delay (with Catherine O'Neill, Amy Sinden, James Goodwin, and Ling-Yee Huang), (2009)
Each year dozens of workers are killed, thousands of children harmed, and millions of dollars...