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E. Donald Elliott

E. Donald Elliott

E. Donald Elliott is a former professor at Yale Law School (1981-2025). He taught and still writes on a wide-variety of subjects, including constitutional law, civil procedure, administrative law, and energy and environmental law. He also practiced law in Washington, D.C. for over 30 years with several leading law firms. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He served as general counsel of the EPA, 1989-1991.
by | Dec 28, 2021

Democrats are apoplectic about Joe Manchin’s announcement last week that he will not support Biden’s latest spending spree, the so-called…

by | Dec 7, 2021

Many new books are appearing drawing various lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Conspicuously absent, however, is any analysis of how weaknesses…

by | Nov 21, 2021

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by | Oct 29, 2021

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by | Sep 2, 2021

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by | Jul 30, 2021

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by | Jun 29, 2021

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by | Mar 17, 2021

The essence of law is even-handed application of neutral principles to those whom we like and those whom we dislike…

by | Mar 14, 2021

The press is full of how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo supposedly killed 15,000 of his state’s most vulnerable by…

by | Feb 16, 2021

“The Resistance was great for business” is the engaging title of a recent article by Byron York. York’s story is…

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