Scholars examine the Court’s most important regulatory decisions of this past term.
The U.S. Supreme Court concluded its 2025–2026 term with decisions that reshaped aspects of presidential power and federal regulatory authority. The term marked a series of significant, though not uniform, victories for the Trump Administration. The Court expanded presidential control over independent agencies, permitted the Administration to proceed with terminating temporary protections for many Haitian and Syrian nationals, and narrowed the reach of the Voting Rights Act.
But the Court also rejected the Administration’s sweeping tariff program and upheld birthright citizenship. In addition, the Court handed down other notable decisions addressing issues related to voting rights, securities enforcement, pesticide labels, and many more.
For the 12th consecutive year, The Regulatory Review is proud to publish its annual series of essays examining the Supreme Court’s regulatory decisions from the preceding term. This series assembles contributions from prominent legal scholars and practitioners who examine the major decisions of the last term and consider their implications for law, governance, regulatory policy, and individual rights.
The series features essays from the following contributors: Emily S. Bremer of the University of Notre Dame Law School; William W. Burke-White of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Jonathan Cedarbaum of The George Washington University Law School; Susan Dudley of The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration; Samuel Estreicher of New York University School of Law; Jean Galbraith of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Michael Herz of Cardozo School of Law; Benjamin Keener, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Ronald M. Levin of Washington University School of Law; Jud Mathews of Penn State Dickinson Law; Sarah Paoletti of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Zachary Price of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco; Arden Rowell of the University of Illinois College of Law; Joshua Sellers of the University of Texas School of Law; Peter Shane of New York University School of Law; Jed Shugerman of Boston University School of Law; Urska Velikonja of Georgetown University Law Center; Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia of Penn State Dickinson Law; Keith Whittington of Yale Law School; Matthew Lee Wiener of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Ilan Wurman of the University of Minnesota Law School; and David Zaring of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.
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