Mass Adjudication in a Changing Administrative State

Three federal mass adjudicatory agencies adjudicate more claims each year than all of the federal courts combined:
    —The Executive Office for Immigration Review
    —The Social Security Administration
    —The Department of Veterans Affairs

Each agency has unique procedures or doctrinal wrinkles; at times, courts and scholars have treated them as exceptional. Yet each has faced similar challenges, including backlogs and endemic delays; disparities in grant rates and claims of arbitrary decision-making; struggles of bureaucratic and political control, quality-control programming and error correction; and in interacting with federal courts via judicial review.

Today, each agency also faces an uncertain and quickly shifting administrative law landscape: increased political control as the Supreme Court undermines adjudicators' interference, enhanced judicial review of agency decision-making and statutory interpretation, and an Executive Branch gutting the federal workforce and benefits programs. Conference contributions will thus look to respond to this moment and highlight trends across the mass adjudicatory state, while looking for broader transubstantive insights that these settings can provide for administrative law and bureaucracy writ large.

The conference, Mass Adjudication in a Changing Administrative State, is sponsored by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Forthcoming.

Forthcoming.

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