What Happens If the FTC Becomes a Serious Rulemaker?
In: In FTC's Rᴜʟᴇᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ Aᴜᴛʜᴏʀɪᴛʏ (Concurrences 2022) (Forthcoming)
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In: In FTC's Rᴜʟᴇᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ Aᴜᴛʜᴏʀɪᴛʏ (Concurrences 2022) (Forthcoming)
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In: 2020-2021 Cato Supreme Court Review 141 (2021)
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On a daily basis, prosecutors decide whether and how to charge individuals for alleged criminal conduct. Although many prosecutors avoid abusing this authority, prosecutors' discretionary decisions might result in biased enforcement, inappropriate leveraging of authority, and a lack of transparency. These problems also arise when agency enforcement officials decide whether to act on conduct that violates a legal prohibition. An inherent tension between the desire to avoid overburdening the system and the need to prevent inconsistent decision-making exists in the exercises of both prosecutorial discretion and regulatory enforcement discretion. It is clear from the similarities between the two that administrative law may offer some important lessons to criminal law. This Article explores the need for transparency and consistency in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion and argues that governments can devise a system similar to regulatory waivers and exemptions to achieve that goal. To frame this discussion, this Article examines recent recommendations adopted by the Administrative Conference of the United States on how agencies should use discretionary authority to grant waivers and exemptions. This Article posits that prosecutors can increase transparency and consistency when exercising discretion by: (1) adopting systems of prospective waiver; (2) notifying the legislature when laws become outdated; and (3) documenting the rationale behind a decision not to charge an individual. By examining criminal law through the administrative law lens, this Article provides solutions to a familiar problem: the abuse of discretion
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In: American Journal of Legal History, Band 62, S. 219-228
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In: Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, pp. 321-346, Vol. 17, 2022
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In: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Forthcoming
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In: 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1129 (2022)
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