Maggie McKinley, Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State, 127 Yale L.J. 1538 (2018).

Wyatt Sassman

I am probably too early in my career to recognize a watershed piece of scholarship, but this sure seems like one to me. In her most recent article, Maggie McKinley traces the origins of the administrative state to the historical practice of petitioning Congress for relief, as protected by the Petition Clause of the First Amendment. She details how Congress afforded petitions important procedural […]