Administrative Remedies
Gwendolyn Savitz and Marc Roark
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Because you can't fix what you don't understand.
The rules governing your daily life - from the medications you take to the air you breathe, from workplace safety to financial regulation - weren't made by Congress. They were made by federal agencies operating under delegated authority. And there's an entire body of law governing how that power works, when it can be challenged, and what happens when it goes wrong.
Administrative Remedies explains that law. Professor Gwendolyn Savitz and Dean Marc Roark of the University of Tulsa College of Law break down the doctrines behind the headlines - Chevron, the major questions doctrine, Jarkesy, due process, agency enforcement - using real-world analogies and current Supreme Court cases.
For law students, practitioners, and anyone who wants the administrative state to actually make sense.
New episodes weekly.
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S2E17 No Right to a Lawyer: Asylum from Inside Detention
A visitation room in a private detention facility in rural Louisiana. Cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, two plastic chairs bolted to the floor. Elena is on one side. A lawyer who drove three…
S2E16 700 Judges, 3.2 Million Cases: The System That Decides Asylum Cases
Two asylum seekers cross the southern border six months apart. Same country, same persecution, same statute. A clerk neither of them has ever met routes one to the regular docket and the other to an…
S2E15 The Framework That Decides Disability
Until June 2024, the Social Security Administration was denying disability claims on the grounds that applicants could work as pneumatic tube operators — a job that functionally disappeared decades…
S2E14 Nobody Said Deny More Cases: How Agency Preferences Reach the Hearing Room
In the final episode of a three-part series on how agencies actually produce outcomes, Gwen and Marc trace the mechanisms that did the work — all of them upstream of the hearing room and mostly…
S2E13 The Review Layer Doesn't Fix It — Three Things Agency Review Does Instead
In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reached into a single immigration case, certified it to himself, and overruled the precedent that had let domestic violence survivors qualify for asylum. In…
S2E12 The Forty-Six Point Spread: Why Your Outcome Depends on Who You Get, Who Represents You, and Where You Live
A 2017 GAO study found that Social Security disability outcomes could swing by forty-six percentage points based solely on which ALJ heard the case. Same claimant, same record, same hearing office,…
S2E11 Same Evidence, Different Outcomes: How Credibility and Burden of Proof Decide What Happens in the Hearing Room
Two claimants walk into two hearing rooms in the same building on the same day. Same herniated disc, same imaging, same attorneys, same legal standard. One walks out with benefits. The other doesn't.…
S2E10 The Lifecycle of an Administrative Case: How the Record Gets Built Before You Walk Into the Room
An insurance adjuster spends thirty minutes on your roof, photographs what they photograph, and writes "minor cosmetic damage" instead of "structural compromise." That characterization is now in the…
S2E9 Jarkesy Jumps to the FTC
Less than two years after the Supreme Court's decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, the Fifth Circuit has applied the same constitutional logic to the FTC — and the implications are far bigger than one…
S2E8 The Right to a Jury: SEC v. Jarkesy and the Limits of Agency Enforcement
The parents leave a rule: milk with dinner. The babysitter enforces it — no problem. But when one kid hits the other, does the babysitter handle that too? She saw the whole thing, she knows the…
S2 Mathews Applied: Due Process, Habeas Corpus, and Immigration
Can the government send you to a foreign prison without giving you any way to say, "You've got the wrong person"? In this companion episode to their Matthews v. Eldridge discussion, Gwen and Marc…
S2E7 How Much Process Are You Actually Due: The Mathews Balancing Test
Tornado watches, warnings, and sirens don't all mean the same thing — and if you live in Oklahoma, you know you don't even run to a shelter every time a siren goes off. You calibrate your response to…
S2E6 The License You Have vs. The License You Want: Roth, Sindermann, and What Counts as Property for Due Process Purposes
Gwen and Marc cover the cases that define what counts as "property" for due process purposes—and why the answer to that question determines whether the Constitution shows up at all.They contrast two…
S2E5 Before We Take Something Away: Why Due Process Is More Than Getting It Right
Gwen and Marc cover the foundational question of procedural due process: Why does the Constitution require the government to give you notice and a hearing before taking something away?They…
S2E4 The Judge Who Built Your Case: When the Judge is Also the Investigator
You walk into a hearing expecting a neutral judge who will listen to both sides. Instead, you find a judge who spent months building your case file—ordering exams, gathering records, forming…
S2E3 Not All Judges Are Equal: The Hidden Spectrum of Federal Adjudicators
When you challenge a government decision, the outcome may depend less on the facts of your case than on which kind of judge you happen to get. Federal administrative adjudication runs on a spectrum —…
S1E17 Learning Resources v. Trump Part 2 - The Major Questions Doctrine and the Airing of Judicial Grievances
Seven opinions. One hundred and seventy pages. Six justices agree the tariffs are unlawful — but they can't agree on why, and the reason matters for every future case where the executive claims…
S1E16 Learning Resources v. Trump Part 1 - The Actual Holding (No Major Questions Doctrine)
On February 20, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. In Part 1 of our emergency coverage, we break down…
S2E2 On the Record or Out of Luck: The Adjudication Spectrum
When an agency decides your case, what kind of process do you get?Sometimes it’s a full trial-type hearing with witnesses, cross-examination, an independent decisionmaker, and a written opinion.…
S2E1 Rulemaking and Adjudication - the Two Engines of Agency Power
This episode introduces one of the most important structural distinctions in administrative law: the difference between rulemaking and adjudication. Agencies don’t just enforce law — they also create…
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Administrative Remedies has published 36 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Education, Government.
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