作者：Webley, Alec
作者单位：New York University
摘要：How does an ordinary citizen find out what the government is doing and why? One early method was pioneered by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The APA requires that when a government agency finalizes a rule, it publishes a preamble containing a concise general statement of the rule's basis and plopose. But the public truth-telling function of these preambles has become undermined by their spectacular length, often to more than a thousand pages longer than their parent rules, making it v...
作者：Messer, Sabra R.
作者单位：American University
摘要：In 2007, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program was enacted to encourage qualified individuals to seek employment in the public sector. A decade later in 2017, the first round of qualified applicants are eligible to receive forgiveness on the remaining balances of their student loans provided they work for a qualifying employer and have made 120 on-time payments under an approved repayment program. However, the PSLF program has been criticized as duplicative and expensive, resultin...
作者：Levin, Ronald M.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：When reviewing the validity of a rule, should a court consider issues that were not presented to the agency during the underlying rulemaking proceeding? In 2015, the Administrative Conference of the United States explored this question, drawing upon a consultant's report prepared by Professor jeffrey Lubbers, but did not reach a consensus on how to answer it. This essay, written to accompany the publication of the Lubbers report, proposes some answers. The thrust of the analysis is that judici...
