You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone: Why You Should Care About What This Term’s Supreme Court Decisions Have Done to the Administrative State

Curious about some of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions? Wondering where we are heading as a nation and how we have gotten here? Concerned about the future of the government? Please join ENTANGLEMENT: STRANGE LIFE as three legal scholars discuss some of the most impactful decisions of the 2023-24 U.S. Supreme Court term, possibly the most activist in U.S. history: what has led up to it, where it is now, and what it may mean for governance in the future.
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PANELISTS

Anya Bernstein (Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law)
Anya Bernstein teaches and writes about administrative law, civil procedure, legal interpretation, and the cultures of bureaucracy. With a JD from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, Bernstein brings the ethnographic and semiotic insights of anthropology to the study of judicial opinions and administrative practices. She has done ethnography and interviews with agency officials to help illuminate the everyday life of the administrative state - the part of government tasked with bringing democratic decisions to life.

Jane Manners (Assistant Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law)
Jane Manners is a legal historian who teaches Torts, Legislation, and a seminar on American legal history. She has written on the development of congressional petitioning, early American understandings of the president's war powers, and the evolution of laws governing officer removal.

Noah A. Rosenblum (Associate Professor of Law, New York University School of Law)
Noah A. Rosenblum is an Associate Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and faculty director of the Vanderbilt Scholars Program and Katzmann Symposium. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of History. Rosenblum works primarily in administrative law, constitutional law, and legal history. His research takes a historical approach to the study of state institutions, seeking to understand how law can be used to promote democratic accountability. He is currently pursuing several projects on the history of the place of the president in the administrative state.