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 250
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Links
- SSRN Page
- Program in Law and Government
- Cecil D. Branstetter Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
Area(s) of Expertise
Administrative law, regulation, presidential power, statutory interpretation, civil procedure
Research Interest(s)
Administrative law, presidential power, statutory interpretation, separation of powers, and theoretical foundations of public law
Education
J.D. Yale University
M. Litt. Oxford University
B.A. Brown University
Biography
Kevin Stack writes on administrative law, regulation, separation of powers, presidential powers, and the theoretical foundations of public law. His recent work has focused on judicial review of agency action, the President’s powers, and regulation. He is also co-author (with Lisa Bressman and Ed Rubin) of The Regulatory State (Aspen Publishers, 2010), a casebook on statutes and regulations. Dean Stack currently serves as a co-chair of the Separation of Powers Committee for the Administrative and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association. He joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 and served as associate dean for research from 2008-10. He began a new term as associate dean for research in July 2012. 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 Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. 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. Dean Stack teaches Administrative Law, the Regulatory State, Legislation, The Nonmarket Environment of Business, Presidential Power, Civil Procedure, and European Union Law.
Representative Publications
Books
The Regulatory State (Aspen Publishers, 2010) (with Lisa Schultz Bressman and Edward L. Rubin)
Articles
"Interpreting Regulations," 110 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
“Agency Independence After PCABO,” 32 Cardozo Law Review 2391 (2011)
"The One Percent Problem," 111 Columbia Law Review 1385 (2011) (with Michael P. Vandenbergh)
"Obama’s Equivocal Defense of Agency Independence," 26 Constitutional Commentary 583 (2010)
"Agency Statutory Interpretation and Policymaking Form," 2009 Michigan State Law Review 225 (2009)
"The Statutory Fiction of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the United States," in Effective Judicial Review, Oxford University Press (Christopher Forsyth, et al., eds., 2010)
"The Reviewability of the President’s Statutory Powers," 62 Vanderbilt Law Review 1171 (2009)
"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)
Presentations
"Interpreting Regulations," presented at Columbia Law School Roundtable on Administrative Law, New York, NY (April 13, 2012); Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (January 13, 2012); Faculty Workshop, College of Law of the University of West Virginia, Morganton, WV (March 19, 2012); and Faculty Workshop, Arizona State College of Law, Tempe, AZ (October 17, 2011)
"The Concept of Law in the Age of Administration," presented at Columbia Law School, Public Law Workshop, New York, NY (April 20, 2012); MPSA, Chicago (April 2010); and Faculty Workshop, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (October 26, 2009)
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