Professor of Law Maggie Blackhawk has been named a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). The ACUS, an independent agency that functions within the US government’s executive branch, convenes experts—including senior federal officials, academics, and others—to discuss and recommend improvements to the fairness and efficacy of the administrative process. Blackhawk is one of seven new public members recently appointed to the agency.
“ACUS welcomes these distinguished new members and thanks them for volunteering their time in the service of ACUS’s important mission to improve administrative procedure for the benefit of the American people,” says an August 2 press release that names Blackhawk among the new public members. She joins NYU Law faculty members Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy; Richard Revesz, dean emeritus and AnBryce Professor of Law; and Sally Katzen, professor of practice and distinguished scholar in residence, who serve as ACUS senior fellows.
Blackhawk is an interdisciplinary scholar with specialties in constitutional law, federal Indian law, and legislation. Since joining the Law School in 2021, she has helped launch the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project, which addresses the impacts of American colonialism on Native peoples through research, including the development of amicus briefs in federal litigation relating to Indian law; training programs; and academic working groups. Her recent projects examine the ways that American democracy can empower minorities, especially outside of traditional rights- and courts-based frameworks. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and the Supreme Court Review. In 2019 Blackhawk received the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Article Prize.
Posted August 19, 2022