Faculty

Sally Katzen

  • Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence
  • Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic
Assistant: Leslie Jenkins
  leslie.jenkins@nyu.edu       212.998.6244
Sally Katzen

AREAS OF RESEARCH

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legislation, Regulatory Practice

Sally Katzen served in the Clinton administration as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as deputy assistant to the president for economic policy and deputy director of the National Economic Council in the White House, and then as the deputy director for management at OMB. She served as the head of the Agency Review Group for the Obama/Biden transition with responsibility for the Executive Office of the President and all government-wide agencies. She has taught both undergraduates and at various law schools. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the National Academy of Public Administration, has served on multiple panels for the National Academy of Sciences, testified frequently before Congress, and is on the board of several non-profit organizations. Before joining the Clinton administration, Katzen was a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, specializing in regulatory and legislative matters, while serving in leadership roles in the American Bar Association (including chair of the Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and as DC delegate to the ABA’s House of Delegates), as president of the Federal Communications Bar Association and as president of the Women’s Legal Defense Fund. She graduated from Smith College and the University of Michigan Law School, where she was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Law Review. She clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served in the Carter administration as the general counsel of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Executive Office of the President.

Courses

  • Advanced Administrative Law

    Administrative Law involves the legal principles and practices that define the authority and structure of administrative agencies, specify the procedures that agencies use, and prescribe the role of reviewing courts. Building on the base of understanding of the administrative state that is covered in the first-year course “Legislation and the Regulatory State,” we will explore in more depth what an agency does and how it does it, how factors external to the agency influence its decision making, and the subtleties underlying the basic principles applied by the courts in reviewing agency decisions ¬– with special attention to the challenges or opportunities created as a result of changes in the Administration or Congress.

  • Advanced Administrative Law Seminar

    Administrative Law involves the legal principles and practices that define the authority and structure of administrative agencies, specify the procedures they use, and set the role of reviewing courts. Building on the materials in LRS, we will delve into what an agency does and how it does it, how factors external to the agency influence its decision making, and the subtleties underlying the basic principles applied by the courts in reviewing agency decisions, with special attention to the challenges or opportunities created as a result of changes in the Administration or Congress.

  • Legislation and the Regulatory State

    This course addresses the public law institutions and procedures of the contemporary administrative regulatory state. It examines the legislative lawmaking processes, the implementation of statutes by administrative agencies through rule making and other procedures, and the role of courts in interpreting statutes and reviewing administrative action at the behest of affected private parties. This course examines the processes, purposes, efficacy and limitations of regulation through an administrative regime, rather than criminal enforcement or private law. Its goals are to introduce the materials, concepts, and tools that lawyers need in a world of statutes and regulations, and to analyze and assess critically the institutions of the administrative regulatory state

  • Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic

    Please see the All Clinical website for complete information about this course.

  • Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic Seminar

    Please see the All Clinical website for complete information about this course.

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Education

  • JD, University of Michigan Law School, magna cum laude, 1967
  • BA (Government), Smith College, magna cum laude, 1964

Honors and Activities

  • Member, American Law Institute, 2016
  • Board of Directors, Resources for the Future, 2011-present
  • Advisory Board, Institute for Policy Initiatives, 2010-present
  • Senior Fellow, Administrative Conference of the United States, 2010-present
  • Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, 2007-present
  • Member, University of Michigan Law School Dean’s Advisory Council, 2006-present
  • ABA Fellows, American Bar Association, 1987-present

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