#8 - Adam White, Law & the Judiciary

The Narrative Monopoly

A conversation with Adam White, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute & Executive Director of George Mason University's Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State

Bio (from AEI)

Adam White is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on American constitutionalism, the Supreme Court, and the administrative state. Concurrently, he is assistant professor of law and the director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Mr. White previously practiced constitutional and administrative law, particularly in the regulation of energy and the environment, finance, and telecommunications. He was a research fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow for the Manhattan Institute. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Mr. White has appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, Commentary, The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the Notre Dame Law Review.

Mr. White has testified before a variety of US House and US Senate committees, including the Senate Judiciary Committee; the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law (currently known as the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law); the Senate Commerce Committee; and the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

He has a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of business administration from the College of Business at the University of Iowa.

Times

• 1:45 - The Administrative State
• 13:15 - Fixing the Administrative State & Transition to the Courts
• 18:30 - Role of Congress
• 21:30 - Earmarks
• 26:00 - Cameras in Congress and the Court
• 30:45 - SCOTUS Talk
• 34:30 - Debates within Originalism
• 38:15 - Narratives and the Courts / Term limits
• 47:25 - Adam’s switch from Hoover to AEI
• 52:15 - Think tanks vs publishers
• 57:30 - What does it take to keep a republic?
  

Links

Adam's podcast, Unprecedential

Adam's twitter

His Atlantic piece mentioned in the show

Jeff's twitter

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