Vanderbilt University Law School
Kevin M. Stack
Associate Dean for Research Professor of Law
Voice: 615-343-9220
Fax: 615-322-6631
Email: kevin.stack@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 108
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Area(s) of Expertise
Administrative law, presidential power, statutory interpretation, civil procedure
Research Interest(s)
Judicial review of agency action, presidential power, statutory interpretation
Education
J.D. Yale University
M. Litt. Oxford University
B.A. Brown University
Biography
Kevin M. Stack writes on administrative law, separation of powers, and presidential powers. His most recent research has focused on the scope of the President's statutory powers and judicial review of agency action. Dean Stack currently serves as a vice-chair of the Separation of Powers Committee for the Administrative and Regulatory Practice Section of the ABA. He joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 and was named Associate Dean for Research in 2008. Dean Stack came to Vanderbilt from the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, which he joined in 2002 after practicing as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. At Yale Law School, he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, an articles editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and received the Felix S. Cohen Prize for the best essay by a student or fellow on a subject relating to legal philosophy. Before earning his J.D., he spent two years studying philosophy at Oxford University supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars.
Representative Publications
Articles
"Agency Statutory Interpretation and Policymaking Form," 2009 Michigan State Law Review (forthcoming 2009) (contribution to symposium issue on Agency Statutory Interpretation)
"The Reviewability of the President’s Statutory Powers," 63 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2009)
"The Statutory Fiction of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the United States," in Judicial Review: A Cornerstone of Effective Governance, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2009) (Christopher Forsyth, editor)
"The Story of Morrison v. Olson: The Independent Counsel and Independent Agencies in Watergate's Wake," in Presidential Power Stories (2008) (Curtis Bradley & Christopher Schroeder eds.)
"The Constitutional Foundation of Chenery," 116 Yale Law Journal 952 (2007)
"The President’s Statutory Powers to Administer the Laws," 106 Columbia Law Review 263 (2006). Abbreviated excerpt published in 31 Administrative & Regulatory News 9, Issue No. 3 (2006)
"The Statutory President," 90 Iowa Law Review 539 (2005)
"The Divergence of Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation," 75 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (2004)
Presentations
"Agency Statutory Interpretation and Policymaking Form," Panel Presentation, Symposium on Agency Statutory Interpretation, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, Michigan
"Presidential Exceptionalism," Roundtable Discussion for The Modern Presidency, American Civilization, Vanderbilt University (September 18, 2008)
"The Statutory Fiction of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the United States," Panel Presentation, Effective Judicial Review Conference, University of Cambridge Centre for Public Law and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 12, 2008
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