Vanderbilt University Law School
Lisa Schultz Bressman
Professor of Law Co-Director, Regulatory Program
Voice: (615) 343-6132
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: lisa.bressman@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 234
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Research Interest(s)
Administrative law; constitutional theory; legislation and regulation
Education
J.D. University of Chicago
B.A. Wellesley College
Biography
Lisa Schultz Bressman has established herself as an innovative scholar in administrative law and constitutional theory. Her most recent work attempts to combine the insights of positive political theorists with those of legal scholars to better explain and defend administrative law. Her other work explores the relationship between accountability and arbitrariness in agency decision making. Her work also includes empirical analyses, such as one project done in collaboration with colleague Michael Vandenbergh, studying the agency experience with presidential control. Professor Bressman joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 1998 after working in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and clerking for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and now-Second Circuit Judge Jose A. Cabranes. In 2006, Professor Bressman was named co-director of Vanderbilt's Regulatory Program. She teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law I, Government and Religion, Problems at the Interface of Tort and Regulatory Law, and Regulatory State (first-year course). She was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in fall 2008.
Representative Publications
Articles
"Deference and Democracy," 75 George Washington Law Review 761 (2007) (inaugural administrative law issue)
"Legitimacy, Selectivity, and the Disunitary Executive: A Reply to Sally Katzen," 105 Michigan Law Review 1511 (2007) (with Mike Vandenbergh)
"Procedures as Politics in Administrative Law," 107 Columbia Law Review 1749 (2007)
"Inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control," 105 Michigan Law Review 1 (2006) (with Michael Vandenbergh)
"How Mead Has Muddled Judicial Review of Agency Action," 58 Vanderbilt Law Review (2005)
"Judicial Review of Agency Inaction: An Arbitrariness Approach," 79 New York University Law Review 1657 (2004)
"Beyond Accountability: Arbitrariness and Legitimacy in the Administrative State," 78 New York University Law Review 461 (2003)
"Disciplining Delegation After Whitman v. American Trucking Ass'ns," 87 Cornell Law Review 101 (2002)
"Accommodation and Equal Liberty," 42 William & Mary Law Review 1007 (2001)
"Schechter Poultry at the Millennium: A Delegation Doctrine for the Administrative State," 109 Yale Law Journal 1399 (2000)
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