Membership

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    As the home for lawyers who work for, interact with, or study government entities, our Section seeks to enhance their professional development, and further the vital public interest in effective, efficient, and fair administration at all levels of government. We invite you to join us!

    The Section of Administrative Law

    Mission: To lend our legal expertise to the resolution of important administrative law issues at the state, national and international levels

    Why Should You Join The Section?

    Membership Benefits

    Does your law practice or professional focus have any connection with the activities, policies, or regulations from federal or state regulatory agencies? If yes, then consider joining the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

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    Become a Section Member

    Our section members include leading administrative law professors; Supreme Court Justices; district and circuit court judges; state court judges; federal and state administrative law judges; attorneys working for federal and state agencies; attorneys working with congressional committees and the executive office of the president; associates and partners at major law firms; and general counsels of fortune 500 companies, major industry trade groups, and public interest groups. These are the attorneys you should know and learn from to be successful in your career. As a member, you will learn from and rub elbows with these experts at our annual administrative law conferences and at our numerous brown-bags and teleforums.

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    Publications

    Members of the Section receive the quarterly Administrative & Regulatory Law News magazine, the quarterly Administrative Law Review, and the annual Developments in Administrative Law compendium, as benefits of membership. Opportunities to submit manuscripts to these publications and to author additional books on administrative law issues in regulatory policy, rulemaking, transparency or adjudication, are key benefits of membership in the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section.

    Events and CLE

    The section holds four annual CLE programs, the Administrative Law Conference in the fall, the Lobbying Institute in the winter, and in the spring the Homeland Security Law Institute and the National Institute of Administrative Law. These programs feature in-depth analysis of current law and practice, with insights gleaned from faculty who are leaders in government, academia and private practice. Opportunities to network abound, and dialogue on issues of importance to the rule of law and the profession provide rich rewards to those Section members who serve as panelists, program organizers or chairpersons.

    Committees

    More than 40 section committees monitor and review agency actions, new legislation and case law in areas such as rulemaking, adjudication and judicial review, as well as on more specific subjects such as homeland security, transportation, immigration, energy and environment, freedom of information and the role of the ombudsman. Working groups are developing recommendations in numerous areas of administrative law including health care access proposals, federal agency preemption, financial regulations, modifications to the MSAPA, etc. Participation on a committee, task force or working group is one of the key benefits of membership in the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, according to our current members.