About the Editor

• Author: Jeffrey S. Lubbers
• Profession: Editor
• Pages: 13-14

About the Editor

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Jeffrey Lubbers is a Fellow of the Section of Administrative Law and

Regulatory Practice, and former Council Member of the Section. He is a

Professor of Practice in Administrative Law at American University’s Wash-

ington College of Law where he teaches Administrative Law and related

courses. He has also taught at the University of Miami School of Law, Wash-

ington and Lee University School of Law, the Georgetown University Law

Center, University of Melbourne, The Australian National University, the

University of Ottawa, and Ritsumeikan University Law School in Kyoto,

Japan. He has degrees from Cornell University and the University of Chicago

Law School and is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland and the

District of Columbia.

Prior to joining American University, he served in various positions with

the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), the U.S.

Government’s permanent advisory agency on procedural improvements in

federal programs until its closure by the 104th Congress in 1995. From 1982-

1995, he was ACUS’ Research Director—a position in the Senior Executive

Service. In this position, he developed ideas for new studies, hired academic

consultants to conduct the studies, reviewed reports, supervised staff attor-

neys and assisted ACUS committees in developing recommendations from

the studies on a wide variety of administrative law subjects. (ACUS was re-

established in 2010, and Professor Lubbers now serves as a Special Counsel

to the revived agency.)

He worked with Congressional committees and agencies to seek imple-

mentation of ACUS recommendations, and served as Team Leader for Vice

President Gore’s National Performance Review team on Improving Regula-

tory Systems in 1993. He is the author of the fourth edition of A Guide to

Federal Agency Rulemaking (2006) (fifth edition forthcoming in 2012), and

co-author of the fourth edition of the Federal Administrative Sourcebook

(2008), both published by the American Bar Association. He also edited the

first twelve editions of this Developments series.