Peter L. Strauss

Columbia Law School

435 West 116th Street

New York, NY 10025

United States

http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/pstrauss.html

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Scholarly Papers (42)

1.

Citizens to Preserve Overton Park V. Volpe

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Jan 2005
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Overton Park, arbitrary and capricious, judicial review, abuse of discretion, Supreme Court

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Chevron's Two Steps

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 95, p. 611, 2009, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 08-193, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1300001
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2009
Kenneth A. Bamberger and Peter L. Strauss
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Columbia Law School
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Chevron, judicial review, administrative action, statutory interpretation, State Farm, arbitrary and capricious, APA Section 706, Brand X

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Overseer, or 'the Decider'? The President in Administrative Law

George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 06-130
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Dec 2006
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
Downloads 448 (104,097)
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President, Administrative Law, Oversight, Article II

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‘Deference’ is Too Confusing - Let’s Call Them ‘Chevron Space’ and ‘Skidmore Weight’

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 112, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 11-284
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2011
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Judicial Review, Administrative Law, Delegation, Deference, Arbitrary, Capricious, Chevron, Skidmore

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Rulemaking in the Ages of Globalization and Information: What America Can Learn from Europe, and Vice Versa

Columbia Journal of European Law, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 06-104
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 31 Jan 2006
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Administrative law, rulemaking, European Union, regulations, transparency, electronic government, soft law, publication rules, legislative drafting, European Commission, comitology

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Private Standards Organizations and Public Law

William & Mary Bill of Rights, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 13-334
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 28 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2014
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
Downloads 358 (134,684)
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secret law, reasonably available, voluntary consensus standards, standards development organizations, SDOs, ANSI, essential requirements, incorporation by reference

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Overseers or 'The Deciders': The Courts in Administrative Law

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 07-159
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2007
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Chevron, Mead, BrandX, State Farm, Judicial review of administrative action, arbitrary and capricious, APA Section 706

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Separation of Powers in Comparative Perspective: How Much Protection for the Rule of Law?

Forthcoming, Oxford University Press book on Comparative Administrative Law, edited by Peter Cane, Herwig Hofmann, and Peter Lindseth, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-614
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2019
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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separation of powers, president, Congress, executive, legislatures, courts, federalism, European Union, administrative agencies, comparative administrative law

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Rulemaking and the American Constitution

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 1485020, THE REGULATORY STATE, Dawn Oliver, et al., eds., Oxford University Press, 2010
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2010
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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rulemaking, American Constitution, administrative law, President, regulation, delegation, judicial review, unitary presidency

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Transsystemia - are We Approaching a New Langdellian Moment? Is Mcgill Leading the Way?

Journal of Legal Education, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 06-103
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Jan 2006
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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legal education, transsystemic, comparative law, McGill

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Statutes that are Not Static - the Case of the Apa

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Jan 2005
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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statutory interpretation, Administrative Procedure Act, Freedom of Information Act, Vermont Yankee, State Farm, textualism, dynamic statutory interpretation

12.

Courts or Tribunals? Federal Courts and the Common Law

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jan 2002
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Supreme Court, judicial function, common law, federal courts, Erie Railroad v. Tompkins, certiorari

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Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, Vol. 62, p. 51, 2009, Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 358
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Oct 2009
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
Downloads 279 (175,424)

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separation of powers, President, PCAOB, SEC

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How the Administrative State Got to This Challenging Place

Daedalus, American Academy of Arts and Science, 2020, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-668
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2020
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Administrative law, Federal Government, Trump, digital government, regulation, deregulation, agencies, presidency, centralization, politicization, rulemaking, EOP, OMB

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In Search of Skidmore

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 13-355
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2013
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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chevron, City of Arlington, judicial review, agency interpretation, agency jurisdiction, agency authority

The President and Choices Not to Enforce

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Feb 2000
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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The President and Choices Not to Enforce

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Jan 2000
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Publication Rules in the Rulemaking Spectrum: Assuring Proper Respect for an Essential Element

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 12 Mar 2001
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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On the Difficulties of Generalization – PCAOB in the Footsteps of Myers, Humphrey’s Executor, Morrison and Freytag

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 10-253
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Oct 2010
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Separation of Powers, President, Independent Regulatory Commission, SEC, PCAOB, Congress, Article II, Opinion in Writing

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Legislation that Isn't - Attending to Rulemaking's Democracy Deficit

California Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 09-222
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2009
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
Downloads 187 (256,919)
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rulemaking, regulation, President, Unitary Presidency, delegation doctrine, discretion, Marbury, Youngstown

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Robert Katzmann's 'Judging Statutes'

The Journal of Legal Education, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-483
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2015
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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statutes, statutory interpretation, Congress, judiciary, legal education, legislation, purposivism, textualism

Implications of the Internet for Quasi-Legislative Instruments of Regulation

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 10-254
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Oct 2010
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Rulemaking, Government Openness, Secret Law, EO 12866, Internet, Regulations

Implications of the Internet for Quasi-Legislative Instruments of Regulation

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2010, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 11-279
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Geier v. American Honda Motor Co.: A Story of Statutes, Regulation and the Common Law

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 09-223
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2009
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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federalism, pre-emption, Supreme Court litigation, regulation, savings clause, airbags, auto safety standards, common law and statutes

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The Role of the Chief Executive in Domestic Administration

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 10-252
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2010
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Separation of Powers, President, Appointment Power, Removal Power, EO 12866, Oversight, PCAOB

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Domesticating Guidance

Lewis & Clark Environmental Law Review (Forthcoming), Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-617
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2019
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Soft Law, Guidance, General Statement of Policy, Administrative Law, Rulemaking, Auer, Finality

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The Perils of Theory

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 07-157
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Oct 2007
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Separation of Powers, Supremacy Clause, federal common law, Erie, Freytag, Constitution

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The President and the Constitution

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-452
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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President, Bruff, Kitrosser, Discretion, Rule of law, Article II

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Politics and Agencies in the Administrative State: The U.S. Case

Draft chapter has been accepted for publication by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd in the second edition of "Comparative Administrative Law," edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter Lindseth, 2017 Forthcoming., Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-537
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2016
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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administrative agencies, executive authority, President, Congress, independent regulatory bodies, separation of powers, political control

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Jerry Mashaw and the Public Law Curriculum

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-482
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2017
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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administrative law, legislation, regulatory state, leg-reg, public law curriculum

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Our Twenty-First Century Constitution

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, Vol. 62, No. 121, 2009, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 10-227
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 17 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2010
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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PCAOB, President, SEC, Appointment Power, Opinion in Writing, Originalism

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The Challenges of Fitting Principled Modern Government – A Unified Public Law – To an Eighteenth Century Constitution

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2018
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
Downloads 112 (387,070)

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judicial review, separation of powers, discretion, deference, President, due process, interpretation

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Things Left Unsaid, Questions Not Asked

164 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 293 (2016), Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-536
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2016
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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executive discretion, President, Article II, Take Care clause, Opinion in writing, removal, transparency

32.

The Administrative Conference and the Political Thumb

George Washington Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-411
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2014
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Administrative Conference, Rulemaking, OIRA, Pre-Notice, political influence, presidential influence

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Legal Frameworks and Institutional Contexts for Public Consultation Regarding Administrative Action: The United States

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 09-221
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2009
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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rulemaking, regulation, e-government, e-democracy, freedom of information

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The Trump Administration and the Rule of Law

Revue française d’administration publique no. 170, 2019, p. 433-446 (2019), Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-650
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2020
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Trump, President, Separation of powers, Agencies, Rulemaking, Executive Powers, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama

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A Softer, Simpler View of Chevron

Administrative and Regulatory Law News, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-599
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 13 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2018
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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Chevron, Judicial Review of Agency Action, Statutory Interpretation, Agency Interpretation

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When the Curtain Must Be Drawn: American Experience with Proceedings Involving Information That, for Reasons of National Security, Cannot Be Disclosed

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-453
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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due process, national security, no-fly, foreign terrorist, Ralls

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The Pre-Session Recess

126 Harv. L. Rev. F. 130 (2013), Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 13-345
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 06 May 2013
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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recess appointment, Canning, President, Senate

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Eroding 'Checks' on Presidential Authority – Norms, the Civil Service, and the Courts

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 31 Jan 2019
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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President, Trump, Administrative Law, Norms, Civil Service, Judicial Appointment, Rulemaking

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On Capturing the Possible Significance of Institutional Design and Ethos

Administrative Law Review, Vol. 61, No. SE259, 2009, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 1485048
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Oct 2009
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School
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administrative law, judicial review, structural arrangements, NIOSH, CASAC, Overton Park

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Power Transitions in a Troubled Democracy

Liber Amicorum D'Alberti
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Jun 2021
Peter L. Strauss and Gillian E. Metzger
Columbia Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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President, Transition, Civil Service, Trump, Biden

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The Common Law and Statutes

In the Colorado Law Review, 1998
Posted: 19 Oct 1998
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School

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Presidential Rulemaking

72 Chicago-Kent Law Review #4 (1997)
Posted: 24 Apr 1997
Peter L. Strauss
Columbia Law School

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