Legal experts and former and current U.S. government officials from regulatory agencies will offer insight on regulatory reform, landmark court decisions, and the future of the regulatory state under a new administration and amid a global pandemic during the virtual conference this week.
The event, sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Section, will be held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A special opening program at noon Wednesday, Nov. 18 features a panel discussion on recognizing and addressing a racial bias in law and regulations.
Conference highlights include: “Agency Adjudication During the COVID Pandemic and Beyond,”scheduled Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
This panel will address how federal agencies have approached a variety of challenges presented by the pandemic, among them promptly adjudicating cases involving benefits, immigration, licensing and regulatory enforcement.
On Thursday from 1-2:30 p.m., a program titled “Addressing the Political Dysfunctions that Threaten the Administrative State” will take place.
Participants in this panel are engaged in efforts to identify and implement reforms of the country’s broken legislative process and appointment process that will allow both to function effectively. They will describe the problems and their proposed methods of addressing them.
On Friday from 12:45-2:15 p.m., a program titled “Regulation in Transition” will be offered. A presidential transition will occur in January 2021, and the government will face key questions about how to proceed, which regulatory tools to use and which issues to address.
This panel will bring together advocates, practitioners and scholars to discuss regulatory strategy for the transition in a handful of regulatory domains: immigration, health care, and environment.
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