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The University of Toledo
Law Review
TOLEDO LAW REVIEW 2023 LEGAL SYMPOSIUM:
ATTACKING AND DEFENDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
This last October, we were honored with distinguished members of the legal community attending and speaking at our 2023 Legal Symposium focusing on Administrative Law.
Meet Our Speakers
Jack Beermann, Keynote Speaker
Jack Beermann has been a faculty member at Boston University since 1984. His scholarship focuses on civil rights litigation and administrative law. He is an authority on the circumstances under which state and local officials, and local governments, should be held liable for their constitutional violations. He has written extensively on the degree to which federal courts should defer to the legal determinations of federal agencies, on the problem of midnight rulemaking, and on the legal aspects of the funding crisis facing public employee pension funds in the United States. In 2017, Beerman was appointed as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Beau Baumann
Beau Baumann is a former appellate attorney at the Department of Justice and is currently a PhD candidate at Yale Law School. His work has appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Pace Law Review, and the Notre Dame Law Review’s Reflections publication. His work on the major questions doctrine includes Americana Administrative Law and The Major Questions Doctrine’s Domain. In addition, Baumann maintains the Major Questions Doctrine Reading List on the Yale Notice & Comment legal blog.
Natasha Brunstein
Natasha Brunstein is a Legal Fellow at The Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Articles & Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal, a member of the Rule of Law Clinic, and co-chair of the Yale Environmental Law Association. She also interned at Earthjustice and the New York State Office of the Attorney General Environmental Protection Bureau. Prior to law school Natasha received her B.A. summa cum laude in Economics from New York University. After her fellowship with Policy Integrity, she will clerk for Judge J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Patricia Ann Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Katharine Jackson
Katharine (Kate) Jackson is an expert in the areas of legal theory, democratic theory, and business. Her work explores the intersection of law, politics, and economics. Building upon the bridge that law forms between democratic states and economic actors, her research focuses on how moral commitments –legal and political—both intervene in, and are driven by, markets and market players. Her interest in political economy also addresses the nature and legitimacy of the public administration meant to hold corporations to their liberal democratic obligations.
Julian Mortenson
Professor Julian Davis Mortenson is a scholar and award-winning teacher specializing in constitutional and international law. His current book project develops a comprehensive account of presidential power at the American founding. He is also co-author of Foundation Press’s new casebook in constitutional law. Mortenson is an active litigator. Representative constitutional matters include serving as lead counsel in a pre-Obergefell suit that required Michigan to recognize the marriages of more than 300 same-sex couples, his work as lead appellate counsel for the Arab-American Civil Rights League’s challenge to the Muslim ban, and many more. He also litigates complex transnational matters in the U.S. courts, including actions involving the enforcement of foreign law and foreign judgments.
Bijal Shah
Bijal Shah, an associate professor and Provost Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School, earned the 2023 Boston College Law School Faculty Prize for Excellence in Scholarship. Shah's research centers on administrative law, structural constitutionalism, and agency dynamics, particularly in immigration and interagency coordination. She has published extensively, including in Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation. As Chair Emeritus of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process, she is deeply involved in legal academia. Shah's background includes roles as Associate General Counsel for the Department of Justice/Executive Office for Immigration Review, a Presidential Management Fellow in the Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and work in various government departments.
Jed Shugerman
Jed Handelsman Shugerman joined Boston University School of Law in 2023. His acclaimed book, "The People’s Courts" (Harvard 2012) examines judicial elections, judicial review, and the impact of money and political parties on American courts. Shugerman is currently working on two books. The first, tentatively titled "A Faithful President," challenges the Robert Court's view of unchecked presidential power and explores early American executive power. The second, "The Prosecutor Politicians," delves into the causes of mass incarceration, tracing the rise of prosecutorial power. Shugerman's expertise draws from his clinical experience in death penalty defense and prisoners' rights litigation. He has contributed amicus briefs on various legal topics and penned op-eds for prominent publications.
Wendy Wagner
Professor Wagner is a renowned expert in the integration of science into environmental policymaking. She earned a Master's in Environmental Studies and a law degree from Yale University. Before entering academia, she gained practical experience, including a stint at the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division and as Pollution Control Coordinator with the Department of Agriculture's Office of the General Counsel. Her extensive research revolves around the nexus of law and science in environmental policy. Her book "Bending Science," co-authored with Tom McGarity, received the Hamilton Grand Prize in 2009. "Dynamic Rulemaking" received the 2018 American Bar Association Award for Scholarship in Administrative Law. Wagner is also a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.
Evan Zoldan
Evan Zoldan is a legal scholar whose research focuses on legislation, legislative power, the legislative process, and statutory interpretation. His work delves into whether legislative bodies like Congress and state legislatures can single out specific individuals for special treatment. Zoldan's article, "The Equal Protection Component of Legislative Generality," was recognized at the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum and falls under the category of Constitutional Law: Theoretical Foundations. His expertise in legislation has garnered attention from both federal and state appellate courts, as well as citations in legal briefs, treatises, and scholarly works. He has served as the chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process. Zoldan earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Gallery
Images from our 2023 Legal Symposium
Symposium Editor
Michael Doyle
A very big thank you to our Symposium Editor, Michael Doyle, for all his hard work and planning.
An additional thank you to our Contributing Symposium Editors— Kayte Geist, Nathan Nord, and John Young— and our Associate Members who all volunteered to assist on the day of the symposium.
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