Jim Rossi

Jim Rossi is an American legal academic, specializing in administrative law and economic regulation. He is Harry M. Walborsky Professor at Florida State University College of Law. His books include "Energy, Economics and the Environment" (Second Edition, Foundation Press 2006) (with Fred Bosselman, Joel Eisen, David Spence and Jacqueline Weaver) [http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/MacEnvReview/review_energy.htm] and "Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law" (Cambridge University Press 2005). [http://www.fsu.edu/news/2005/05/27/rossi.book/] [http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-source/05/09/Sep05-TomainRev9=27.pdf]

Professor Rossi's scholarly contributions address participation and judicial review in administrative law; energy regulation (particularly the electric power industry) and regulated industries; and state administrative procedure and constitutional law. His work has criticized the growth of mass participation in the administrative state [Jim Rossi, "Participation Run Amok: The Deliberative Costs of Mass Participation in Agency Decisionmaking," 92 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 173-249 (1997).] and has defended the role of courts to engaging in "reasonableness" review of agency decisions [Jim Rossi, "Bargaining in the Shadow of the Administrative State: Rulemaking Settlement and the Public Interest," 51 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1015-1058 (2001); Jim Rossi, "Respecting Deference: Conceptualizing Skidmore Within the Architecture of Chevron," 42 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1105-1147 (2001); Redeeming Judicial Review: The Hard Look Doctrine and Federal Regulatory Efforts to Restructure the Electric Utility Industry, 1994 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 763-837.] without limiting the constitutional authority of federal agencies. [Mark Seidenfeld & Jim Rossi, "The False Promise of the 'New' Nondelegation Doctrine," 76 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 1-19 (2000).] He also has argued for a strong judicial role in monitoring deregulated industries, such as electric power, [Jim Rossi, "Moving Public Law Out of the Deference Trap for Regulated Industries," 39 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 617-676 (2005); Jim Rossi, "Lowering the Filed Tariff Shield: Judicial Enforcement for a Deregulatory Era," 56 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1591-1659 (2003); Jim Rossi, "The Electric Power Deregulation Fiasco: Looking Balance Between Markets and the Provision of Public Goods," 100 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1768-1790 (2002).] although in this context he also is critical of judicial efforts to limit the constitutional authority of the federal government to reform industry. [Jim Rossi, "The Irony of Deregulatory Takings," 77 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 297-320 (1998); Susan Rose-Ackerman & Jim Rossi, "Disentangling Deregulatory Takings," 86 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1435-1495 (2000).] Professor Rossi is one of a handful of scholars in the U.S. who study state constitutions and state administrative law. His work in this area focuses on the role of state separation of powers in cooperative federalism programs, [Jim Rossi, "State Executive Lawmaking in Crisis," 56 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 237 (2006); Jim Rossi, "Dual Constitutions and Constitutional Duels: State Separation of Powers and theImplementation of Federal Programs," 45 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1343-84 (2005).] and on the scope "finality" of decisions issued by state and local administrative law judges [Jim Rossi, "Final, But Often Fallible: Acknowledging the Problems with ALJ Finality," 56 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 53-76 (2004)] and other issues in state administrative procedure. [Jim Rossi, "Overcoming Parochialism: Institutional Design and State Administrative Procedure," 53 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 551-574 (2001).]

He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and a B.S. from Arizona State University.

External links

* [http://www.law.fsu.edu/faculty/jrossi.html Florida State University College of Law faculty profile]

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