There's no good reason everyone can't have two seminars and a course release!

Don't tempt Michael to write "Sign Law."

But if he does, here's a quote from Blackstone: Caligula, who (according to Dio Cassius) wrote his laws in a very small character, and hung them up upon high pillars, the more effectually to ensnare the people.

I don't know, a lot of what I do now could be considered dream interpretation.

In this lecture, I will try to give some perspective on recent Supreme Court decisions, Executive Orders, and agency practices that have upended long-standing foundations of Administrative Law.

More information about the Summit here: www.farb.org/conferences

No 50?

For more on the difficulties of classification that plague special legislation clause interpretation, see: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This case, like many special legislation cases, turns on difficult questions of classification. Because no two things or people are identical, whether they are part of the same class for purposes of special legislation will often have no obvious answer, and may be in the eye of the beholder. /6

Specifically, the court concluded that when two groups do not stand in precisely the same relation to the law as one another, it is not invalid for the law to treat them as two separate classes with different legal consequences. /5

The court sided with the plaintff, holding that a law is not "special" simply because it names a category of conduct and assigns it consequences that differ from those for similar conduct. Rather, a law is special if it singles out a subclass that is otherwise legally the same as a larger class. /4