Gary Lawson joined the Boston University School of Law faculty in 2000, after eleven years at Northwestern University School of Law. In 2022, he was named a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor. He has authored or co-authored nine editions of a textbook on administrative law, a textbook on constitutional law, five university press books and more than one hundred scholarly articles on topics ranging from aspects of constitutional theory and history to the proof of legal propositions. His works have been cited in twenty-one opinions of United States Supreme Court Justices. Professor Lawson twice clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, first at the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then at the United States Supreme Court. He is a founding member, and serves on the Board of Directors, of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution.
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Panel 2: Text, History, and... Tradition? What historical evidence constitutes ‘tradition’ and how ought originalist judges to use it?
2025 Florida Chapters Conference
Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resort1700 Epcot Resorts Blvd
Lake Buena Vista, 32830
Break & Book Signing
2025 Florida Chapters Conference
Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resort1700 Epcot Resorts Blvd
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Book Signing
2024 National Lawyers Convention
The Washington Hilton1919 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
Book Signings
2024 National Lawyers Convention
The Washington Hilton1919 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
The Death of Chevron and the Future of the Administrative State
Orlando Lawyers Chapter
Winter Park Events Center, Grand Ballroom1050 W Morse Road
Winter Park, FL 32789
Ghosts of Chevron [The FedSoc Films Podcast]
In this episode of the FedSoc Films Podcast, Professor Gary Lawson of the University of...
Panel III: The Judicial Power and Evaluating Judicial Supremacy
2024 National Student Symposium
New presidential administrations start with a flurry of administrative actions. These fresh rules, guidelines, and...
Panel III: The Judicial Power and Evaluating Judicial Supremacy
2024 National Student Symposium
New presidential administrations start with a flurry of administrative actions. These fresh rules, guidelines, and...
Showcase Panel II: Whither Precedent?
2023 National Lawyers Convention
No one maintains that the Court has always and forever been originalist in its orientation....
Showcase Panel II: Whither Precedent?
2023 National Lawyers Convention
No one maintains that the Court has always and forever been originalist in its orientation....

Administrative Law and Congress
Who makes laws? Congress has power from Article I to create laws, yet the vast majority of laws today come from administrative agencies, who promulgate...