The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is the “bill of rights” of the modern administrative state. Passed by Congress and signed by President Truman in 1946, the APA establishes the central framework ensuring that “governors shall be governed” and “regulators shall be regulated.” This landmark statute lays the foundation for all forms of executive rulemaking, agency adjudication, judicial review, and public participation in the regulatory process.

Though Congress has not substantively amended the APA in the last eight decades, its vision of the administrative state has nevertheless undergone seismic shifts at the hands of the judiciary. In recent terms, the Court has fundamentally changed the appointments and removals of administrative officers, the administrative adjudication of individuals’ rights, the role of the federal courts in interpreting regulations, and agencies’ understanding of their statutory grants.

The Stanford Law Review (SLR) will convene a Symposium in the winter of 2026 both to look back on the last century of administrative law and to look forward to the next. SLR invites authors to submit manuscripts that address doctrinal, historical, empirical, or normative aspects of administrative law generally or specific areas of administration (e.g., environmental law, immigration law, national security). Selected manuscripts will appear in print in Volume 78 of SLR.