Lisa Schultz Bressman

Vanderbilt University - Law School

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law

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Nashville, TN 37203-1181

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Statutory Interpretation from the Inside -- An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation and the Canons: Part I

65 Stanford Law Review 901 (2013)
Number of pages: 126 Posted: 06 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2013
Abbe R. Gluck and Lisa Schultz Bressman
Yale University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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legislation, Congress, administrative, delegation, empirical, statutory, deference

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Statutory Interpretation from the Inside - An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation and the Canons: Part II

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 66, 2014, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 488
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 22 Nov 2013
Abbe R. Gluck and Lisa Schultz Bressman
Yale University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Legislation, Congress, Politics, Administrative Law, Empirical, Delegation, Canons, Interpretation, Textualism, Purposivism, Agencies, Chevron, Statutes, Statutory Interpretation

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Beyond Accountability: Arbitrariness and Legitimacy in the Administrative State

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 02-06
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 10 Feb 2004
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Procedures as Politics in Administrative Law

Columbia Law Review, December 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-12
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Jun 2007
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads 618 (91,846)
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administrative agency, APA procedures, politics, PPT, democracy, constitutional legitimacy, separation of powers, Mead, Chevron, judicial review, accountability, rule-of-law, normative, Congress, President, legislative oversight monitoring, political science

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How Mead Has Muddled Judicial Review of Agency Action

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 05-07
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Apr 2005
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Regulation in the Behavioral Era

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 95, 2011, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 11-8, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-4
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 09 Feb 2011
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Amanda R. Carrico and Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Regulation, behavioral sciences, social sciences, regulatory review, administrative law, environmental law, energy, electric cars

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Inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 105, 2006, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-07
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Apr 2006
Lisa Schultz Bressman and Michael P. Vandenbergh
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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agency, EPA, White House, presidential control, OIRA, accountability, empirical, regulation, rulemaking

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Judicial Review of Agency Inaction: An Arbitrariness Approach

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 04-16
Number of pages: 159 Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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agency, judicial review, inaction, arbitrary, non-reviewability, standing, separation of powers, administrative, nondelegation, APA, Utah Wilderness, SUWA

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The Future of Agency Independence

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 63, 2010, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-02, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-01
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2010
Lisa Schultz Bressman and Robert B. Thompson
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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agency, executive branch, President, presidential control, accountability, expertise, independence, financial reform, positive political theory, political science, health care, climate change, OIRA, SEC, Fed, PCAOB, Treasury, securities, market stability, monetary policy, interest rates

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Lower Courts After Loper Bright

31 Geo. Mason L. Rev, 499 (2024), Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 23-49
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2024
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Chevron, Loper Bright, Relentless, judicial review, major questions doctrine, APA, statutory interpretation, judicial deference, delegation, textualism, Skidmore, State Farm, arbitrary and capricious, hard look doctrine

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Statutory Interpretation from the Inside: Methods Appendix

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 5, 2013, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 311, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 482, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper Series No. 13-43
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2014
Abbe R. Gluck and Lisa Schultz Bressman
Yale University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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legislation, statutory interpretation, deference, administrative law, Congress, political process, empirical

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The Ordinary Questions Doctrine

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The Ordinary Questions Doctrine

Forthcoming GEO.WASH. L. REV. , Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 23-51
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 14 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2024
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads 172 (363,843)

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Chevron, Major Questions Doctrine, Loper Bright, judicial deference, judicial review, statutory interpretation, canon of construction, APA, administrative law, mixed questions, congressional delegation, agency, scope of authority, questions of law

The Ordinary Questions Doctrine

The George Washington Law Review, Vol. 92 No. 5, October 2024
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 30 Oct 2024
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Loper Bright, Chevron, delegation, deference, APA, statutory interpretation, judicial review, arbitrary and capricious, law, policy, agency, mixed questions

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Deference and Democracy

George Washington Law Review, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-20
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Oct 2006
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Gonzales, Chevron, Brown & Williamson, judicial deference, judicial review, democracy, presidential control, statutory interpretation, administrative law

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Disciplining Delegation after Whitman V. American Trucking Ass'Ns

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 01-10 and Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 01-6
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Aug 2001
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Chevron's Mistake

Duke Law Journal, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-55
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 26 Nov 2008
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Chevron, Mead, Zuni, statutory interpretation, textualism, intentionalism, purposivism, positive political theory, accountability, expertise, arbitrary, preemption, canons of construction, nondelegation, delegation

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Chevron Is a Phoenix

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, 2021, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 21-35
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Sep 2021
Lisa Schultz Bressman and Kevin M. Stack
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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judicial review, administrative agencies, Administrative Procedure Act, administrative law, arbitrary and capricious, deference, institutional settlement, delegation, statutory interpretation

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Reclaiming the Legal Fiction of Congressional Delegation

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming , Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 11-14
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Apr 2011
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Chevron, Mead, Brown & Williamson, statutory interpretation, delegation, political scienc, administrative law, legal fiction, administrative procedure, agencies, agency expertise, political accountability, legislative intent, Congress

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The Rise and Fall of the Self-Regulatory Court

101 Texas Law Review 1 (2022), Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 22-13
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 18 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2022
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Supreme Court, Stare Decisis, Rule of Four, Originalism, Textualism, Legitimacy, Court Reform, Shadow Docket

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Legitimacy, Selectivity, and the Disunitary Executive: A Reply to Sally Katzen

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 105, p. 1511, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-11
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 May 2007
Lisa Schultz Bressman and Michael P. Vandenbergh
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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agency, administrative, environment, president, OMB, OIRA, accountability, regulation, regulatory, rulemaking, empirical, executive, efficiency, efficacy, cost-benefit analysis

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The Jurisprudence of 'Degree and Difference:' Justice Breyer and Judicial Deference

Yale Law Journal Forum, 2022, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 22-37
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2023
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Statutory interpretation, Breyer, Roberts Court, Chevron, Deference, Judicial Review, Delegation, Major questions, agency, administrative law, Mead, Barnhart, West Virginia v. EPA, Brown & Williamson, King v. Burwell,