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Jeffrey Lubbers Professor of the Practice of Law WCL Faculty

Degrees
A.B., Cornell University
J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Favorite Place in Washington DC
National Gallery of Art
Bio

Jeffrey Lubbers is a Professor of Practice in Administrative Law and is also active as a Fellow in WCL’s Law and Government Program. He holds expertise in administrative law; government structure and procedures; and regulatory policy and procedures. In addition to teaching Administrative Law and an advanced administrative law seminar, he has also taught the first-year elective, Introduction to Public Law: Legislation and the Regulatory State. He also serves as WCL’s liaison to Japanese Law Schools, having taught at WCL’s “sister school,” Ritsumeikan University School of Law in Kyoto, for twelve summers. From 2012-15 he was Director of WCL’s Europe Summer Law Program. He has also engaged in numerous administrative law reform projects in China in the last 20 years. From 1982-1995, Professor Lubbers was the research director of the Administrative Conference of the United States, where he is now Special Counsel. He has published three books: A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking (6th ed., ABA Press, 2018), Administrative Law and Process in a Nutshell (with Ronald M. Levin) (6th ed., West Academic, 2017), and Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (with William Funk) (5th ed., ABA Press, 2016). He also served as the editor of the ABA’s Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (16 vols., 1998-2014).

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Areas of Specialization
Administrative Law
Law and Government
Legislative Process
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Area of Expertise

Administrative law; law and government; legislative process

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Jeffrey Lubbers is a Professor of Practice in Administrative Law and is also active as a Fellow in WCL’s Law and Government Program. He holds expertise in administrative law; government structure and procedures; and regulatory policy and procedures. In addition to teaching Administrative Law, he also teaches the Washington Lawyer Seminar, the keystone course in the LLM in Law and Government Program. He also serves as WCL’s liaison to Japanese Law Schools, having taught at WCL’s “sister school,” Ritsumeikan University School of Law in Kyoto, for nine summers. From 2012-15 he was Director of WCL’s Europe Summer Law Program. He has also engaged in numerous administrative law reform projects in China in the last 20 years. From 1982-1995, Professor Lubbers was the research director of the Administrative Conference of the United States, where he is now Special Counsel. He has published three books: A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking (6th ed., ABA Press, 2019), Administrative Law and Process in a Nutshell (with Ronald M. Levin) (6th ed., West Academic, 2017), and Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (with William Funk) (5th ed., ABA Press, 2016). He also served as the editor of the ABA’s Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (16 vols., 1998-2014).

For the Media

To request an interview for a news story, call ĢƵ Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

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