Public Comments to APA "Informal" Section 553 Rule-making are potentially very important instruments in shaping law and regulation, particularly in environmental law. However, there have been relatively few articles discussing how one should craft these comments, given the legal environment...

Environmental Law is Becoming More Complex because the executive branch continues to stretch existing environmental laws to accommodate new policies. Without Congressional intervention to craft tailored laws, we run the risk of our environmental administration becoming so complex that it makes...

Many have advocated for the expansion of peer review to improve scientific judgments in law and public policy. One such test case is the patent examination process, with numerous commentators arguing that scientific peer review can solve informational deficits in patent determinations. We...

Should arbitrators adjudicate on the basis of their own investigations, or invite the interested parties to make their cases and decide on the basis of the information so gathered? I call the former the inquisitorial procedure in arbitration and the latter the adversarial procedure. I conduct a...

This paper examines tensions in the administration of justice in Canada. These tensions arise in part from what the author describes as a ‘tripartite' responsibility for the courts system, split between two levels of government and the judicial and executive branches. It also identifies...

This annotated bibliography provides citations, abstracts and links for the articles that were published in the Journal of Accounting, Ethics and Public Policy between 1998-2022. Topics include financial and managerial accounting, auditing, taxation, tax evasion, outsourcing, insider trading,...

Numerous regulatory reform proposals would require federal agencies to conduct more thorough economic analysis of proposed regulations or expand the resources and influence of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which currently reviews executive branch regulations. Such...

The number of regulations and their economic impact continue to grow. Yet the quality and use of economic analysis to inform regulatory decisions falls far short of the standards enunciated in executive orders governing regulatory analysis and review. Both the president and Congress have...

Since 1974, executive orders have required executive branch regulatory agencies to produce some form of economic analysis when promulgating significant regulations. However, both case study research and regulatory analysis “scorecards” find that the quality of regulatory analysis varies...

Scholarly research demonstrates that Regulatory Impact Analysis often falls short of the standards articulated in executive orders and Office of Management and Budget guidance. More often than not, agencies do not appear to use the Regulatory Impact Analysis to inform major decisions. Regulatory...