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General Permits: An Environmental Minefield
At bottom, Eric Biber and J.B. Ruhl argue in their recent article that general permits are a panacea for many of the difficult permitting issues that modern administrative agencies face. We have no quarrel with their conclusion in...
Permitting and Innovation in the Digital Age
Co-authors Eric Biber and J.B. Ruhl should be commended for providing a thoughtful framework for when agencies should consider individual versus general permitting regimes. They presented a similar framework for the Administrative...
The Permit Power Revisited: The Theory and Practice of Regulatory Permits in the Administrative State
Regulatory permits are ubiquitous in modern society, yet receive little attention in legal and policy commentary and law school curriculums. Broadly speaking, there are two contrasting approaches to permitting. “Specific permits” entail...