Promoting Public-regarding Legislation through Statutory Interpretation: An Interest Group Model

Prevailing Wage Laws: Public Interest or Special Interest Legislation?

The public policy of the United States is broadly in favor of competition. Our antitrust laws are premised on the idea that in the absence of such legislation private interests would seek to create monopolies, fix prices, restrain trade, and stifle competition. Moreover, the federal government, as well as the states and municipalities, has laws mandating competitive bidding on government contra...

HEART Group notification regarding 'Management of Potential Conflict of Interest'.

“We live in an era of extensive industrial support and involvement in medical research. The National Institutes of Health undertakes cooperative endeavors in which industry provides substantial support in money or in kind, without which the research or clinical effort could not be undertaken. Industry additionally provides substantial nongovernmental clinical and research support to individuals...

Realism in Statutory Interpretation and Elsewhere

Elected Judges and Statutory Interpretation Aaron - Andrew

This Article considers whether differences in methods of judicial selection should influence how judges approach statutory interpretation. Courts and scholars have not given this question much sustained attention, but most would probably embrace the “unified model,” according to which appointed judges (such as federal judges) and elected judges (such as many state judges) are supposed to approa...

Statutory Interpretation in the Era of OIRA

The Article is a case study regarding a rule governing cooling water towers for power plants promulgated pursuant to the Clean Water Act (”CWA”). It analyzes the history of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (”OIRA”) within the Office of Management and Budget (”OMB”), and its influence in compelling the Environmental Protection Agency (”EPA”) to conduct cost-benefit analysis of al...