University of Wisconsin Law School Assistant Professor Jason Yackee has been awarded the Searle Young Legal Scholars Research Fellowship by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, one of two scholars nationwide to receive the honor.

The fellowship, which is being awarded for the first time this year, funds a semester's leave from teaching duties for one or two outstanding young legal scholars working on significant legal scholarship. Yackee’s leave is scheduled for the spring semester of 2010.

Yackee will work on an empirical administrative law project that examines whether legal developments in the 1970s have made it more difficult for federal agencies to regulate in the public interest today than in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Searle Fellowship was created to support one or two junior tenure-track faculty members from a nationwide pool who have demonstrated outstanding academic talent and commitment to intellectual diversity in the academy.

The second national winner of the Searle Fellowship is Professor Robert Miller of Villanova University School of Law.

For more information about Professor Jason Yackee and his work, see http://law.wisc.edu/profiles/jyackee .

Submitted by on January 22, 2009

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