Event Title
Independent Agencies: Government's Scourge or Salvation?
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
26-2-1988 2:30 PM
End Date
26-2-1988 3:00 PM
Description
This symposium invites reflection on a number of important questions concerning the independence of the independent regulatory agencies. Three such questions are briefly examined in this essay: First, what is the nature of an independent agency? Second, why should regulatory agencies be independent? Finally, what constrains, and what ought to constrain, an agency's independence? These questions are considered against the backdrop of the legal debate about the constitutional legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies that has been raging since Congress created the first such agency a hundred years ago. The thoughts and conclusions offered in this essay draw on the history and recent experience of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "the Commission"), long recognized as one of the finest independent agencies.
Related Paper
Aulana L. Peters, Independent Agencies: Government’s Scourge or Salvation?, 1988 Duke Law Journal 286-296 (1988)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol37/iss2/7
Independent Agencies: Government's Scourge or Salvation?
Duke Law School
This symposium invites reflection on a number of important questions concerning the independence of the independent regulatory agencies. Three such questions are briefly examined in this essay: First, what is the nature of an independent agency? Second, why should regulatory agencies be independent? Finally, what constrains, and what ought to constrain, an agency's independence? These questions are considered against the backdrop of the legal debate about the constitutional legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies that has been raging since Congress created the first such agency a hundred years ago. The thoughts and conclusions offered in this essay draw on the history and recent experience of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "the Commission"), long recognized as one of the finest independent agencies.
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