Document Type
Article Review
Publication Date
3-20-2017
ISSN
2330-1295
Publisher
JOTWELL
Language
en-US
Abstract
Many law review articles fail to live up to the promise of their titles or abstracts, leaving disappointed readers in their wake. Others have titles that hide the ball. Behind the wordy and somewhat bland title of Jed Shugerman’s 2015 article—The Dependent Origins of Independent Agencies: The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Tenure of Office Act, and the Rise of Modern Campaign Finance—lies a fascinating new take on the origins of independent agencies.
The identification of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) as the first modern independent regulatory agency is familiar to scholars of American administrative law. The ICC, created in 1887, was the first federal agency with the hallmarks of independence—multiple commissioners appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, staggered terms of specified duration (six years in this case), removal by the President only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance and office,” and a requirement of bipartisan membership.
Recommended Citation
Jack M. Beermann,
The Surprising Origins of the Interstate Commerce Commission
,
in
JOTWELL
(2017).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/72
Publisher URL
https://adlaw.jotwell.com/the-surprising-origins-of-the-interstate-commerce-commission/
