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Cynthia R. Farina 
William G. McRoberts Research Professor in Administration of the Law
Working Papers
"Knowledge in the People: Rethinking 'Value' in Public Rulemaking Participation," (with Dmitry Epstein, Josiah Heidt, and Mary Newhart) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-65 (2013) forthcoming Wake Forest Law Review.
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Books
Administrative law of the European Union. Transparency and Data Protection (with Sidney A Shapiro; Thomas M Susman; George A Bermann; Charles H Koch) (Chicago, III. : ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2008).
Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Judicial Review of Provisions Regarding Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Frederick Anderson, Mary Ann Chirba-Martin, E. Donald Elliott, Ernest Gellhorn, John D. Graham, C. Boyden, Gray, Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Ronald M. Levin, Lars Noah, Katherine Rhyne, and Jonathan Wiener) (Boston, MA: Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, 1999).
Casebooks
Supplement to Gellhorn & Byse’s Administrative Law Rev. 10th ed. (with Peter Strauss and Todd Rakoff) (New York: Foundation Press, 2007).
Gellhorn & Byse’s Administrative Law (with Peter Strauss and Todd Rakoff) (New York: Foundation Press, Rev. 10th ed. 2003).
Teacher's Manual to Gellhorn & Byse’s Administrative Law (with Peter Strauss and Todd Rakoff) (New York: Foundation Press, 10th ed. 2002).
Gellhorn & Byse’s Administrative Law (with Peter Strauss and Todd Rakoff) (New York: Foundation Press, 10th ed. 1999).
Gellhorn & Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments. (with Peter Strauss, Todd Rakoff, and Roy Schotland) (Westbury: Foundation Press, 9th ed. 1995).
Teacher's Manual to Gellhorn & Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments. (with Peter Strauss, Todd Rakoff, and Roy Schotland) (Westbury: Foundation Press, 9th ed. 1995).
Contributions to Books
"Natural Resources Defense Council v. Chevron" in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA; 2008).
"Transparency" §§ 1-2 (with S. Shapiro & T. Susman) in Administrative Law of the European Union:Transparency and data protection (Chicago, Ill. : ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice; G. Bermann, C. Koch, Jr. and J. O'Reilly, eds., 2008).
"Standing" in A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies (Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association; Duffy and Herz, eds., 2005).
"Due Process at Rashomon Gate:  The Stories of Mathews v. Eldridge," in Administrative Law Stories (New York, N.Y. :  Foundation Press; Peter L. Strauss, ed. 2006).
"Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Opinions: Two Centuries of Interbranch Dialogue," in The History of the Law in Massachusetts: The Supreme Judicial Court, 1692-1992, 353-92 (Boston: Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society, Russell K. Osgood, ed. 1992).
"Conceiving Due Process," in  Administrative Law Anthology (Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Pub. Co., T. Sargentich, ed. 1994). Reprinted from 3 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 189 (1991).
"Statutory Interpretation and the Balance of Power in the Administrative State," in Administrative Law Anthology (Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Pub. Co.,  T. Sargentich, ed. 1994); Foundations of Administrative Law (NY: Oxford University Press, P. Shuck, ed. 1994); reprinted from 89 Columbia Law Review 452 (1989).
Articles
" Rulemaking vs. Democracy; Judging and Nudging Public Participation that Counts," (with Mary Newhart and Josiah Heidt) 2 Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law Issue 1 (2012) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-20 (2012).
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"Rulemaking 2.0," (with Mary Newhart, Claire Cardie, Dan Cosley, CeRI), 65 University of Miami Law Review 395 (2011).
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"Rulemaking in 140 Characters or Less: Social Networking and Public Participation in Rulemaking," (with Paul Miller, Mary J. Newhart, Claire Cardie, Dan Cosley, and Rebecca Vernon) 31 Pace Law Review 382 (2011).
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"False Comfort and Impossible Promises: Uncertainty, Information Overload and the Unitary Executive," 12 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 357 (2010).
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"Achieving the Potential: The Future of Federal E-Rulemaking, Report of the Committee on the Status and Future of Federal 3-Rulemaking," 62  Administrative Law Review   (2010).
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"Deconstructing Non-Delegation," 33 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 87 (2010).
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"Constitutional Conscience and the Virtuous President," Annual Administrative Law Symposium __ Duke Law Journal__ (forthcoming).
"Administrative Law as Regulation:  The Paradox of Attempting to Control and to Inspire the Use of Public Power," 19 South African Public Law 489-512 (2004).
"The Administrative Procedure Act Project: Availability of Judicial Review," 54 Administrative Law Review 52 (2002) (A portion of  A Black Letter Statement of Federal Administrative Law prepared by the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the ABA).
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"Cognitive Psychology and Optimal Government Design" (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski), 87 Cornell Law Review 549-615 (2002).
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"Foreword: Post-Public Choice?" (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski), 87 Cornell Law Review 267-79 (2002).
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"Faith, Hope and Rationality, or Public Choice Theory and the Perils of Occam's Razor," 28 Florida State University Law Review 109-35 (2000).
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"Regulatory Improvement Legislation:  Risk Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Judicial Review" (with Fred Anderson, et al.), 11 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 89-138 (2000).
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"The Consent of the Governed: The President and 'The People'," 26 Cornell Law Forum 3-10 (1999).
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"Undoing the New Deal Through the New Presidentialism," 22 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 227-38 (1998).
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"On Misusing 'Revolution' and 'Reform': Procedural Due Process and the New Welfare Act," 50 Administrative Law Review 591-634 (1998).
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"The Consent of the Governed: Against Simple Rules for a Complex World," 72 Chicago-Kent Law Review 987-1037 (1997).
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"The 'Chief Executive' and the Quiet Constitutional Revolution," 49 Administrative Law Review 179-86 (1997).
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"Judicial Review of Petitions," 48 Administrative Law Review 355 (1996).
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"Keeping Faith: Government Ethics & Government Ethics Regulation," 45 Administrative Law Review 287-341 (1993).
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"Getting From Here to There," 1991 Duke Law Journal 689-710 (1991).
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"Conceiving Due Process," 3 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 189-279 (1991).
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"How Separation of Powers Protects Individual Liberties" (with L. Gordon Crovitz, Charles J. Cooper, Alfred C. Aman, Jr., and Jonathan R. Macey), 41 Rutgers Law Review 805-34 (1989).
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"Statutory Interpretation and the Balance of Power in the Administrative State," 89 Columbia Law Review 452-528 (1989).
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"Escape from Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Theory of Constitutional Necessity 59 Boston University Law Review 334 (1979).
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Electronic Publications
"A Study in Rule-Specific Issue Classification for e-Rulemaking, Proceedings," (with Claire Cardie, et al.) of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, May 18-21, 2008 (Digital Government Research Center, USC Info Sciences Inst).
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"Achieving the Potential: The Future of Federal e-Rulemaking," (Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking: C. Farina, Reporter 2008); Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 010-007 (Mar 4, 2010).
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