The scholarship of Lisa Bressman, Vice Dean and David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School, was cited twice in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.
In his opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts cited Bressman’s 2005 Vanderbilt Law Review article “How Mead Has Muddled Judicial Review of Agency Action.” Justice Elena Kagan cited “Statutory Interpretation From the Inside—An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation, and the Canons: Part I,” a 2013 article Bressman co-authored in the Stanford Law Review, in her dissent.
“How Mead Has Muddled Judicial Review of Agency Action” examines the court of appeals decisions applying the decision rendered in U.S. v. Mead Corp.
“Statutory Interpretation From the Inside—An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation, and the Canons: Part I” offers an empirical study on topics ranging from legislative drafters’ knowledge and use of the textual and substantive canons of interpretation, to legislative history, the administrative law deference doctrines, the legislative process and the Court-Congress relationship.
