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.
Arthur Kaplan Professor of Law, Co-Director, Floersheimer Center, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Professor Michael E. Herz joined the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LAw from the Environmental Defense Fund, where he was a staff attorney for three years. Previously, he clerked for Associate Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Levin H. Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Herz was Cardozo's Vice Dean from 2006 to 2009 and served as Senior Associate Dean from 1996 to 2000; he is currently the co-director of Cardozo's Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, has taught at Columbia and Princeton, and spent a year as a Fellow in Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. Professor Herz is a former Chair of the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and serves as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Associate, King & Spalding
Brian Callanan is an associate in the national appellate practice at King & Spalding. He has participated in cases before the Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state and federal trial courts.
Mr. Callanan has drafted appellate briefs and critical motions in matters involving a broad range of complex legal issues. He has considerable experience litigating against federal agencies and advising clients on administrative law matters. He has represented clients before, or in litigation against, agencies including the Department of Transportation, National Labor Relations Board, Securities & Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Reserve, Department of Health & Human Services, and Food & Drug Administration. Among other successes, he participated in an Administrative Procedure Act challenge that prompted a federal agency to withdraw the costliest regulatory mandate in the history of the U.S. railroad industry. He co-chairs the Rulemaking Committee of the American Bar Association’s administrative law section and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s administrative law section.
Before joining King & Spalding, Mr. Callanan was general counsel to U.S. Senator Rob Portman. In that position, he served as principal adviser on tax policy, regulatory policy, and legal issues cutting across all substantive areas. He developed and drafted bipartisan legislation on a range of issues, including bipartisan bills to reform the rulemaking process, to strengthen economic analysis by independent regulatory agencies, to reform the federal permitting process for major infrastructure projects, and to expedite the sale of excess federal property. He advised Senator Portman in connection with his work on the Finance Committee and the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. During the same period, he served as staff director of a Senate oversight subcommittee with jurisdiction over all aspects of federal contracting.
Previously, Mr. Callanan was a litigation associate at another major law firm in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Callanan served as a law clerk to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2008. At Harvard, Mr. Callanan served as Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Before law school, he served as a speechwriter in the U.S. Senate. Mr. Callanan earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Associate, King & Spalding
Brian Callanan is an associate in the national appellate practice at King & Spalding. He has participated in cases before the Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state and federal trial courts.
Mr. Callanan has drafted appellate briefs and critical motions in matters involving a broad range of complex legal issues. He has considerable experience litigating against federal agencies and advising clients on administrative law matters. He has represented clients before, or in litigation against, agencies including the Department of Transportation, National Labor Relations Board, Securities & Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Reserve, Department of Health & Human Services, and Food & Drug Administration. Among other successes, he participated in an Administrative Procedure Act challenge that prompted a federal agency to withdraw the costliest regulatory mandate in the history of the U.S. railroad industry. He co-chairs the Rulemaking Committee of the American Bar Association’s administrative law section and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s administrative law section.
Before joining King & Spalding, Mr. Callanan was general counsel to U.S. Senator Rob Portman. In that position, he served as principal adviser on tax policy, regulatory policy, and legal issues cutting across all substantive areas. He developed and drafted bipartisan legislation on a range of issues, including bipartisan bills to reform the rulemaking process, to strengthen economic analysis by independent regulatory agencies, to reform the federal permitting process for major infrastructure projects, and to expedite the sale of excess federal property. He advised Senator Portman in connection with his work on the Finance Committee and the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. During the same period, he served as staff director of a Senate oversight subcommittee with jurisdiction over all aspects of federal contracting.
Previously, Mr. Callanan was a litigation associate at another major law firm in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Callanan served as a law clerk to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2008. At Harvard, Mr. Callanan served as Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Before law school, he served as a speechwriter in the U.S. Senate. Mr. Callanan earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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.
Arthur Kaplan Professor of Law, Co-Director, Floersheimer Center, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Professor Michael E. Herz joined the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LAw from the Environmental Defense Fund, where he was a staff attorney for three years. Previously, he clerked for Associate Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Levin H. Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Herz was Cardozo's Vice Dean from 2006 to 2009 and served as Senior Associate Dean from 1996 to 2000; he is currently the co-director of Cardozo's Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, has taught at Columbia and Princeton, and spent a year as a Fellow in Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. Professor Herz is a former Chair of the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and serves as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Amtrak and the Non-Delegation Doctrine in the Supreme Court
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