Nina A. Mendelson, the Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, teaches and conducts research in the areas of administrative law, environmental law, statutory interpretation, and the legislative process.
Featured Scholarship
"The Not-So-Standard Model: Reconsidering Agency-Head Review of Administrative Adjudication Decisions"
Administrative Law Review
- Administrative Law
"Public Engagement, Equity, and Executive Order 14,094"
Administrative & Regulatory Law News
"The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation?"
Administrative Law Review
- Administrative Law
- Civil Rights
"Tribes, Cities, and Children: Emerging Voices in Environmental Litigation"
Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
- Environmental and Energy Law
Activities
Served as senior commenter on environmental law scholarship at Michigan Junior Scholars' Conference.
Spoke on American Bar Association panel on Modernizing Public Comment: Potential, Perils, Pitfalls.
Spoke at Duke Law School on Constitutional Principals, Administrative Adjudication and Arthrex.
Served as a paper commenter at the Legislation Roundtable at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut.
Delivered a paper on presidential power to bypass Senate confirmation, University of Pittsburgh Law School.
Delivered a paper on environmental litigation, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, California.
Delivered a paper on presidential power to bypass Senate confirmation, Washington University Law School, St. Louis.
Spoke on mass and fraudulent commenting on agency rulemaking at the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section conference, Washington, D.C.
Delivered the Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture on new categories of environmental plaintiffs, Florida State University College of Law.
Spoke on mass commenting on agency rule-making at the Administrative Conference of the United States conference, Washington, D.C.
Presented a project on agency vacancies at the Berkeley Law School Political Appointments Roundtable, Berkeley, California.
Served as a senior commenter at the New Voices in Administrative Law conference, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor.
Presented a paper on statutory interpretation at a faculty workshop, University of Colorado Law School.
Delivered a paper on interpretive canon use in the Roberts Court, Harvard Law School Public Law Workshop.
Delivered a paper on outsourcing at a workshop, Vanderbilt Law School.
Commented on agency practice and inequality, Administrative Law Symposium, Duke Law School.
