Dan Ernst
@dbqur.bsky.social
Legal historian. Recovering ironist.
Brandeis on Humphrey's Executor: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"
April 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Brandeis on Humphrey's Executor: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"
Here is a recording of a panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week. I present, alongside Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo. Noah Rosenblum moderated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_y...
Symposium Panel 3: Lessons from History
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April 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Here is a recording of a panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week. I present, alongside Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo. Noah Rosenblum moderated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_y...
My essay on the great twentieth-century immigration lawyer and civil libertarian Carol Weiss King. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/caro...
Carol Weiss King (1895-1952)
[The second of the two essays in the exam for my legal history course is biographical. (If you'd like to read prior ones, start here .) Th...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My essay on the great twentieth-century immigration lawyer and civil libertarian Carol Weiss King. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/caro...
For some historical perspective on the impending war on the federal bureaucracy, here is my essay on law and policy at the early FDA. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/law-...
Law and Politics at the Bureau of Chemistry
[For the exam in my legal history class , I write an essay about some administrative regime that we did not cover but that developed in way...
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January 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
For some historical perspective on the impending war on the federal bureaucracy, here is my essay on law and policy at the early FDA. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/law-...