Brandeis on Humphrey's Executor: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"

Here is a recording of a panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week. I present, alongside Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo. Noah Rosenblum moderated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_y...

My essay on the great twentieth-century immigration lawyer and civil libertarian Carol Weiss King. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/caro...

For some historical perspective on the impending war on the federal bureaucracy, here is my essay on law and policy at the early FDA. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/law-...