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Showing posts with label administrative law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label administrative law. Show all posts
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Sunshine Fest shines in D.C. despite gloomy climate

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Last week I attended Sunshine Fest in Washington, D.C., a conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sunshine Week , which recognizes t...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Roberts explains 'real crisis' of American government

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Flyer by RJ Peltz-Steele (with AI art) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At UMass Law last week, Alasdair S. Roberts , UMass Amherst professor of public polic...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book details knotty business of higher ed counsel

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By attorney Louis H. Guard and academic Joyce P. Jacobsen , All the Campus Lawyers (2024) is a compelling recent read for anyone intereste...
Friday, December 6, 2024

FOIA Advisory Committee takes aim at volume, other challenges in access to public records

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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , serving the National Archives, held a public meeting yesterday via WebEx, and the...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Transparency never goes out of style

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This autumn, I am privileged to serve as a new member of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee, a U.S. federal entity con...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

ACUS seeks consultant on access to public records

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The Administrative Conference of the United States ( ACUS ) has posted a request for proposals (RFP) seeking "a consultant to produce ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

FTC 'junk fees' proposal needs tightening

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The CFPB is attacking junk fees in banking. The FTC rule would govern consumer sales transactions. CFPB image . Today I submitted the follow...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Citizens defeat attack on state transparency law

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A bill that would have gutted the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was defeated in committee in the Arkansas House on March 29. A mo...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Laws suspending driver licenses for fines need reform

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Spencer K. Schneider , a 3L at UMass Law and teaching assistant in my Torts I-II classes, has authored an article for the National Lawyers ...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Court: Irish officials must justify non-disclosure under FOIA exemption for commercial information

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Ireland Supreme Court chamber ( Michael Foley CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) In two judgments in late September, the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled tha...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Student prevails in part in UMass Amherst due process disciplinary case in First Circuit

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Last week the First Circuit held in favor of a student accused of a violent assault; however, the court largely upheld as constitutional th...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

State FOIA critical in practice, not so much in law school, law student observes

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Connor Gillen, UMass Law '21 and a thriving alum of my 1L Torts class, was featured in the local Cape Cod Times during his summer inter...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

'FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury'

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With Kitty Cone, Esq. , I've published FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury , 70:4 Okla. L. Rev. 839 (2018), availabl...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Abstract: Arthur on vaccination and consumer protection

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Donald C. Arthur, M.D., J.D. UMass Law '17, has published Commercial Deception by Anti-Vaccine Homeopathic Websites: A Consumer Protecti...