Jack Beermann has been on the faculty of Boston University School of Law since 1984. Professor Beermann received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and received a B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the Boston University faculty in, Professor Beermann clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In 2008, 2011 and 2014, Professor Beermann was visiting professor at Harvard Law School, teaching Administrative Law and Legislation and Regulation. Professor Beermann has also taught in Germany, Israel and China. In 2017, Professor Beermann was appointed as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. While growing up in Chicago, Professor Beermann was a food vendor at Chicago Cubs, White Sox and Bears games and at Northwestern University football games.
We are currently in the midst of the most important deregulatory moment in the United States since the beginning of Ronald Reagan’s presidency in 1981 — perhaps since the dawn of the administrative state. President Donald Trump has issued a series of Executive Orders directing agencies to explore opportunities to reduce regulatory burdens, including Executive…
What is to become of administrative adjudication and adjudicators? As the never-ending assault on the administrative state marches on, administrative adjudication is in the cross-hairs of reformers. The latest chapter in the ongoing controversy over the proper role of adjudication within administrative agencies is the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Lucia v. SEC, that SEC…
