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Dear friends,
It’s been a summer full of activity for the Gray Center, and we’re keen to describe it all in this edition of the newsletter.
But it’s also been a summer of change. Our co-director, Jenn Mascott, accepted an offer to join the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. She’ll continue her landmark work there—her teaching, her scholarship, and her new Separation of Powers Institute. She also launched the Constitutional Renewal Foundation. We can’t thank her enough for all that she built and accomplished at the Gray Center, and we’re keen to watch her build her new institutions. Please sign up for their mailing lists, if you haven’t already.
There is good news, too. We are proud to announce that Joshua Kleinfeld is joining us as our new faculty co-director. Professor Kleinfeld joined Scalia Law's faculty this year after teaching for many years at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law and we are incredibly grateful to have him on board. He has many exciting new ideas for us to try at the Gray Center. Stay tuned for more on that soon.
The summer saw the publication of many Gray Center working papers and symposia. We list them all in the newsletter, a few paragraphs further down. You’ll find our George Mason Law Review symposium on Chevron and Loper Bright, which was previewed at one of our Fall 2023 conferences. You’ll also find our Journal of Law, Economics & Policy symposium on The Future of Financial Regulation, which also was the subject of a conference. The NYU Journal of Law & Liberty published our symposium on Why We Can’t Build In America Anymore. And stay tuned for our symposium on equity in the administrative state, to be published in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy—you might recall our webinar series on those papers in the spring.
Meanwhile, we’ve published several new policy briefs on infrastructure reform, civil service reform, White House reorganizations, and more. We’ve recorded podcasts on a wide range of topics. And we’ve hosted a bunch of events, too.
Like we said, it’s been a very busy few months for us. And we’ll be just as busy in the months to come: research roundtables for new working papers on the post-Chevron world; a symposium on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse; and much more.
We started the new academic year with a conference celebrating the work and ideas of our late friend, mentor, and namesake, C. Boyden Gray. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us that day, including his family, our special guest speakers, and our keynote speaker, former White House Counsel Don McGahn. We’re forever grateful to Boyden for his support and encouragement. And we’re grateful to you for all your support and encouragement, too. Stay tuned for a very, very productive year at the Gray Center.
All the best,
The Gray Center Team
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