Author: Craig Green

Who’s most likely to change (or hyphenate) their name after marriage?

With the SAVE Act before Congress, the Washington Post explored marriage-related name changes in America, finding that the feminist movement of the 1970s preceded a decline in women who followed traditional norms.”The way I would think about the mid-1980s is that law and culture traveled together,” says Prof. Craig Green. “By that time, a larger number of women- in many states – wanted to keep the ir unmarried names. Feminism, sex equality and ideas about modern progress made married- name defaults from the past seem outdated.”

Trump is Trying to Cut the Public Out of Federal Rulemaking

Trump is Trying to Cut the Public Out of Federal Rulemaking President Trump issued three executive orders that, if upheld, will restrict public input into government rules and increase executive power to make them unilaterally despite SCOTUS’s decision to the contrary in Loper Bright. Prof. Craig Green warns that “he is trying to use Loper Bright as a mask or as a chess piece to try to push deregulatory policies” and “any judicial safeguards or backstops might not occur for a year, a year and a half- long after the politics have moved on to something else.”

How hospitals and health systems are affected by Supreme Court tossing Chevron doctrine

Prof. Craig Green on the reduced power of regulators in a post-Chevron landscape: “This is true across the board, that’s what we’re told, Chevron is not just abolished for one agency or one field of law, but rather for administrative agencies across the board. And this produces uncertainty, it produces weakness, and it produces risk.” Read More