Award Recipients

2024

Professors Neal Devins & David E. Lewis’ article, The Independent Agency Myth, 108 Cornell L. Rev. 1305 (2023)

2023

Professors Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan’s article, The Separation-of-Powers Counterrevolution, 131 Yale L.J. 2020 (2022)

2022

Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley, "Delegation at the Founding", 121 Colum. L. REV. 277, 2021

2021

Elizabeth Fisher and Sidney A. Shapiro, "Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law", Cambridge University Press, 2020
Anne Joseph O'Connell, "Actings", Colum. Law. Rev., 613, 2020

2020

Miriam Seifter, "Understanding State Agency Independence, 117 Mich. L. Rev. 1537 (2019)

2019

Ronald M. Levin, "Rulemaking and the Guidance Exemption", 70 Admin L. Rev. 263 (2018)

2018

Wendy Wagner, William West, Thomas McGarity, Lisa Peters, "Dynamic Rulemaking", 92 New York University Law Review, 183 (2017)

2017

Eloise Pasachoff“The President's Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control", 125 Yale L.J. 2182 (2016)
Adrian Vermeule,“Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State" (Harvard University Press 2016)

2016

Gillian Metzger, "The Constitutional Duty to Supervise", 124 Yale Law Journal 1836 (2015)

2015

Anne Joseph O'Connell, "Bureaucracy at the Boundary", 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 841 (2014)

2014

Nicholas R. Parrillo, "Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government", 1780-1940, Yale University Press (2013)

2013

Jerry L. Mashaw, Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law, Yale University Press (2012);
Kevin M. Stack, Interpreting Regulations, 111 Michigan Law Review 355 (2012)

2012

John Manning, Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation, 124 Harvard Law Review 1939-2040 (2011)

2011

Nina Mendelson, Disclosing ‘Political Oversight’ of Agency Decision Making, 108 Michigan Law Review 1127-1178 (2010)

2010

Anne Joseph O’Connell, Vacant Offices:  Delays in Staffing Top Agency Positions, 82 Southern California Law Review 913 (2009)

2009

William Eskridge and Lauren Baer, The Continuum of Deference: Supreme Court Treatment of Agency Statutory Interpretation from Chevron to Hamdan, 96 Geo. L.J. 1083 (2008)

2008

Reuel E. Schiller, The Era of Deference: Courts, Expertise, and the Emergence of New Deal Administrative Law, 106 Michigan Law Review 399 (2007)

2007

Nicholas Bagley and Richard L. Revesz, Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State, 106 Columbia Law Review 1260 (2006)

2006

Edward Rubin, The Myth of Accountability and the Anti-Administrative Impulse, 103 Michigan Law Review 2073 (2005)

2005

M. Elizabeth Magill, Agency Choice of Policymaking Form, 71 University of Chicago Law Review 1383 (2004)

2004

Steven P. Croley, White House Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Empirical Investigation, 70 University of Chicago Law Review 821-885 (2003)

2003

Thomas Merrill and Kathryn Tongue Watts, Agency Rules With the Force of Law: The Original Convention, 116 Harvard Law Review 467 (2002)

2002

Elena Kagan, Presidential Administration, 114 Harvard Law Review (2001)

2001

Jody Freeman, The Private Role in Public Governance, 75 New York University Law Review 5434 (2000)

2000

Cass R. Sunstein, Is the Clean Air Act Constitutional?, 98 Michigan Law Review 303 (1999) and Informational Regulation and Informational Standing: Akins and Beyond, 147 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 613 (1999)

1999

John F. Duffy, Administrative Common Law in Judicial Review, 77 Texas Law Review 113 (1998)

1998

Jerry Mashaw, Greed Chaos, and Governance, Yale University Press (1997)
Cynthia Farina, The Consent of the Governed: Against Simple Rules for a Complex World, 72 Chicago-Kent Law Review 987 (1997)

1997

George B. Shepherd, Fierce Compromise: The Administrative Procedure Act Emerges from New Deal Politics, 10 Northwestern Law Review 1557 (1996)
Jessica Korn, The Power of Separation: American Constitutionalism and the Myth of the Legislative Veto, Princeton University Press, (1996)

1996

Patrick J. Borchers and David L. Markell, New York State Administrative Procedure and Practice, West Publishing (1995)

1995

Richard J. Pierce, Administrative Law Treatise, 3rd Edition (1994)

1994

Richard L. Revesz, Rehabilitating Interstate Competition: Rethinking the ‘Race to the Bottom’ Rationale for Federal Environmental Regulation, 67 New York University Law Review 1210 (1993)

1993

Thomas W. Merrill, Judicial Deference to Executive Precedent, Yale Law Journal (1992)

1992

Thomas O. McGarity, Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy, Cambridge University Press (1991)

1991

Jerry L. Mashaw and David L. Harfst, The Struggle for Auto Safety, Harvard University Press (1990)

1990

Cass R. Sunstein, Interpreting Statutes in the Regulatory State, Harvard Law Review (1989)

1989

Linda R. Hirshman, Postmodern Jurisprudence and the Problem of Administrative Discretion, Northwestern University Law Review (1988)

1988

Peter L. Strauss, Formal and Functional Approaches to Separation-of-Powers Questions: Foolish Inconsistency?, Cornell Law Review (1987)

1987

The Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, Judicial Review of Questions of Law and Policy, Administrative Law Review (1986)

1986

Cass R. Sunstein, Interest Groups in American Public Law, 38 Stanford Law Review 29 (1985)