Published on Aug. 13, 2024

Erika Lietzan, the WIlliam H. Pittman and Timothy J. Heinsz Professor of Law, has been reappointed to a third term as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). ACUS is a federal agency charged by Congress with studying the efficiency, adequacy, and fairness of the procedures used by administrative agencies and with developing recommendations for improvement. 

These recommendations are issued to administrative agencies, the President, Congress, and the Judicial Conference of the United States, and often result in important procedural reforms. Members of ACUS develop these recommendations in committee, and the agency then meets in plenary session twice a year to consider and, as appropriate, adopt the recommendations. 

The full membership of ACUS constitutes  a chair and ten-member council (all presidential appointees), 50 government members, and 50 public members, who in turn are scholars, members of the practicing bar, and others with special expertise in administrative law. Professor Lietzan will be serving a third term as a public member and also serves on the Committee on Regulation.