UW Law School Professor Jason Yackee and his co-author Susan Yackee of the UW-Madison Department of Political Science have received the Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award from the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) for their interdisciplinary paper, "Is Agency Rule-Making ‘Ossified’? Testing Congressional, Presidential, and Judicial Procedural Constraints from 1983 to 2006."
The paper was presented at the 65th MPSA Annual National Conference in Chicago in April 2007, where 4,000 presenters from the United States and countries throughout the world presented more than 3,300 papers.
Commenting on the specific achievement of the Yackees’ paper, UW Law School Professor John Ohnesorge noted, "The ‘ossification’ debate is one of the main fault lines along which administrative law scholars divide, yet there are few people who have undertaken large-scale studies to test its empirical bases."
Ohnesorge adds, "This kind of work is very important for understanding how administrative law and actual governance interact, and there is not enough of it."
Submitted by on January 10, 2008
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