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Staszewski on Administrative Review of Agency Inaction

By Lawrence Solum

Glen Staszewski (Michigan State University College of Law) has posted The Federal Inaction Commission (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 369, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This Article proposes the establishment of a "Federal Inaction Commission" (FIC). This new, independent agency would be charged with investigating and reviewing the inaction of Executive Branch agencies and reporting its findings and recommendations to elected officials and the public. The FIC would provide many of the same benefits that would result from increasing the availability of judicial review of non-enforcement decisions and other regulatory inaction. At the same time, the FIC would be in a position to minimize the practical disadvantages that have been identified with judicial review of such decisions. Not only would the establishment of the FIC therefore provide a more workable solution to the problem of agency inaction than other commentators have offered, but the agency would also provide a political solution to what the staunchest defenders of the status quo have maintained is solely a "political" problem.

The Article is a contribution to the 28th Annual Thrower Symposium at Emory University School of Law on "Executive Power: New Directions for the New President?"

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).