Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Case Western Law Review
Publication Date
Spring 2025
ISSN
0008-7262
Page Number
929
Keywords
democracy, administrative law
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Law
Abstract
I would like to thank Dean Micheal Scharf and Professor Jonathan Entin for inviting me to Case Western Reserve University School of Law to deliver the Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecture and thank all of you for attending. It's really a pleasure to be here and to have the opportunity to offer a talk named after such a distinguished jurist. Judge Frank J. Battisti served on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for 33 years, and he was chief judge of that court for more than two decades. During his time on the bench, Judge Battisti handled a number of historically significant cases, including the long-running Cleveland school desegregation case,' important Fair Housing Act litigation, and lawsuits involving the location and operation of public housing in and around Cleveland. The Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecture was endowed in large measure due to the devotion of many ofJudge Battisti's clerks, a good number of whom graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. The lecture series has included an extraordinary array of distinguished speakers, both from the law and from other fields in which Judge Battisti had an abiding interest, including leading judges, legal scholars, religious leaders, political theorists, and prominent civil rights figures.
Recommended Citation
Edward L. Rubin,
Responsive Democracy and the Administrative State, 75 Case Western Law Review. 929
(2025)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1729