Amy Widman
@awidman.bsky.social
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law (Rutgers), American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Scholar - access to justice, administrative law, state and local government, legal education
Reposted by Amy Widman
#RutgersLaw Assoc. Dean @awidman.bsky.social co-wrote an essay on the ACUS recommendation to allow qualified nonlawyer representatives—such as family members and social workers—to support participants in navigating complex administrative proceedings:
www.theregreview.org/2025/06/02/w...
#lawsky
www.theregreview.org/2025/06/02/w...
#lawsky
Expanding Access to Nonlawyer Representation in Agency Adjudications | The Regulatory Review
ACUS recommends allowing nonlawyers to represent parties in agency adjudications.
www.theregreview.org
June 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#RutgersLaw Assoc. Dean @awidman.bsky.social co-wrote an essay on the ACUS recommendation to allow qualified nonlawyer representatives—such as family members and social workers—to support participants in navigating complex administrative proceedings:
www.theregreview.org/2025/06/02/w...
#lawsky
www.theregreview.org/2025/06/02/w...
#lawsky
Reposted by Amy Widman
@awidman.bsky.social's empirical study on "the various regulatory structures governing nonlawyers" representation in agency adjudication.
Representation, Calibrated
More people interact with administrative adjudications than with courts, and the lack of lawyers to assist people in these proceedings remains at crisis levels.
papers.ssrn.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@awidman.bsky.social's empirical study on "the various regulatory structures governing nonlawyers" representation in agency adjudication.
Reposted by Amy Widman
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
My latest newsletter post here:
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
My latest newsletter post here:
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
By Samuel Bagenstos NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short)...
buttondown.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
My latest newsletter post here:
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
My latest newsletter post here:
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
Reposted by Amy Widman
Pete Buttigieg sets the record straight.
January 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pete Buttigieg sets the record straight.
Reposted by Amy Widman
I missed this entirely:
The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.
Musk demanded he resign.
He did.
On January 20th.
www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.
Musk demanded he resign.
He did.
On January 20th.
www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”
www.thedailybeast.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I missed this entirely:
The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.
Musk demanded he resign.
He did.
On January 20th.
www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines.
Musk demanded he resign.
He did.
On January 20th.
www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...
Reposted by Amy Widman
Right-wingers carp about how bad & bloated government is, but government keeps us safe. There is no rugged individualist way to have clean air to breathe, safe highways, food that won't make us sick, or safe air travel. Competent government underlies our daily lives in ways we don't even notice.
seems like we are about to relearn the adage about every safety regulation being written in blood. (and, i might add, it holds for the agencies responsible for promulgating them.)
January 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Right-wingers carp about how bad & bloated government is, but government keeps us safe. There is no rugged individualist way to have clean air to breathe, safe highways, food that won't make us sick, or safe air travel. Competent government underlies our daily lives in ways we don't even notice.
Reposted by Amy Widman
This is a must-read from the always insightful @ssinnar.bsky.social on what colleges, universities, and professors can and should be doing in these harrowing times.
My op-ed: "Colleges and universities ... seem to be hoping that their muted responses — and affirmative acquiescence — will spare them. ...This sort of acquiescence will not only fail to protect institutions, but will expose all of us to further repression."
stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...
stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...
From the Community | The dangers of institutional acquiescence
Universities should not stay silent on Trump's blitzkrieg of policies that target immigrants, gut diversity initiatives and pardon insurrectionists, writes law professor Shirin Sinnar.
stanforddaily.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a must-read from the always insightful @ssinnar.bsky.social on what colleges, universities, and professors can and should be doing in these harrowing times.
Reposted by Amy Widman
It's easy to hate "the government" but the government is thousands of programs that help millions of people in critical ways
Part of the confusion around the OMB funding freeze lay in the spreadsheet that was circulated with it: It named about 2,600 federal programs, a virtual copy-and-paste of how the U.S. government spends money.
We translated it more legibly here...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We translated it more legibly here...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs spanning virtually every part of the government. Here’s the full list.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It's easy to hate "the government" but the government is thousands of programs that help millions of people in critical ways
Reposted by Amy Widman
Listen to #RutgersLaw Professor Amy Widman on the "Between the Lines" podcast discussing the use of non-lawyers to represent and assist parties in agency adjudication. The current administration has recently halted funding for some of these groups: federalnewsnetwork.com/podcast/betw...
January 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Listen to #RutgersLaw Professor Amy Widman on the "Between the Lines" podcast discussing the use of non-lawyers to represent and assist parties in agency adjudication. The current administration has recently halted funding for some of these groups: federalnewsnetwork.com/podcast/betw...
Reposted by Amy Widman
New from the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse -- we're going to track and post about civil rights lawsuits against the Trump Administration. Check it out! clearinghouse.net/post/1175/
Clearinghouse is tracking Trump Administration litigation | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Civil Rights Litigation Clearninghouse post: Clearinghouse is tracking Trump Administration litigation
clearinghouse.net
January 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New from the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse -- we're going to track and post about civil rights lawsuits against the Trump Administration. Check it out! clearinghouse.net/post/1175/
Reposted by Amy Widman
Have I told you that a group of indexers volunteered their time and energy to index the monstrosity that is Project 2025? This is NOT made with AI, but only professional indexers. Please bookmark and boost! Share it with journalists!
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Have I told you that a group of indexers volunteered their time and energy to index the monstrosity that is Project 2025? This is NOT made with AI, but only professional indexers. Please bookmark and boost! Share it with journalists!
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
Reposted by Amy Widman
Whatever the Trump admin thinks about "environmental justice" as a philosophy, in practical terms it means providing protections to poorer communities facing environmental risks, like natural disasters.
(This might also explain Trump's opposition to FEMA - he thinks it is woke).
(This might also explain Trump's opposition to FEMA - he thinks it is woke).
January 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Whatever the Trump admin thinks about "environmental justice" as a philosophy, in practical terms it means providing protections to poorer communities facing environmental risks, like natural disasters.
(This might also explain Trump's opposition to FEMA - he thinks it is woke).
(This might also explain Trump's opposition to FEMA - he thinks it is woke).