President, Cass & Associates, PC
Ronald A. Cass is Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law (where he was Dean from 1990-2004), President of Cass & Associates, PC, former Vice-Chairman and Commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission, former faculty member at Boston University School of Law and the University of Virginia Law School, and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. Dean Cass also sits as an arbitrator for commercial, international, and intellectual property rights disputes, and is a former United States member of the Panel of Conciliators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. He is a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States and has received seven presidential appointments, spanning Presidents Ronald Reagan to Donald J. Trump.
As a law professor, lecturer, and scholar, Dean Cass has been teaching and writing about a wide array of legal issues on topics such as administrative law and regulation, antitrust, constitutional law, communications, intellectual property, international trade, separation of powers, and legal process. He has published more than 160 scholarly books, chapters, articles, and papers, including a leading casebook on administrative law. Dean Cass has taught judges as well as students in schools of law, economics, business, and public policy and has held academic appointments in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
In addition to his academic work, Dean Cass has participated in numerous important legal cases as an amicus, consultant, or expert, and has advised businesses, law firms, investment funds, and government agencies on a range of trade, antitrust, intellectual property, and regulatory issues. He has a broad range of affiliations with professional groups, and has received numerous honors, fellowships and awards.
Dean Cass is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago Law School.
Topics
United States v. Pheasant: Oral Argument Held In Important Nondelegation Challenge
A Ninth Circuit panel (Judges Bea, Bennett, and Miller) recently heard oral argument in United...
Topics
The Fed’s Remarkable ‘Independence’ Claim
This post originally appeared in The Daily Economy. In the course of human events, the...
Topics
California's War on Satire and a Victory for the First Amendment
Information technology revolutions inevitably raise hard questions about the scope of the First Amendment’s free...
Topics
Reestablishing Congressional Oversight of Federal Regulations
In July, the House Committee on Administration held a hearing examining whether Congress was prepared for the...
Topics
The NLRB’s “Laboratory Conditions” Are Overdue for Inspection
Just like campaigns for political office, union representation election campaigns are characterized by bombast, bloviation,...
Topics
The Comstock Act: Why Federal Mail-Order Abortion Rules Are the Next Abortion Battleground
Since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, there has been debate about...
Topics
Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association v. DOL: Post-Loper Bright Pushback on Agency Overreach
The long period of labor peace to which Americans are so accustomed is the product...
The Curtain Falls on Chevron: Will the Chevron Two-Step Give Way to a Simpler Loper Bright-Line Rule?
Ronald A. Cass
Federalist Society Review, Volume 25
Traditionally, administrative law cases don’t make news. Instead, they make snooze. They can be exciting...
Topics
Federal Court Recognizes Limits to Federal Power Over At-Home Distilling
What are the limits of the federal government’s powers? That critical question has been debated...
Topics
Is the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional?: Government Appeals a District Court Ruling That Said “Yes,” With More Challenges In Progress
On March 1, 2024, Judge Liles Burke in the Northern District of Alabama held in...