What Is the Lost History of Congress’s Offices of Legislative Counsel? (with Beau Baumann)

Understanding Congress

The topic of this episode is, “What is the lost history of Congress’s Offices of Legislative Counsel?”

My guest is Beau Baumann, a doctoral candidate in law at Yale University. He studies the intersection of administrative law and legislation. He has published articles in a number of law journals and previously worked as an attorney for the US Department of Justice and clerked for a federal district court. He is the author of a really interesting, new article titled, “Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism.” In it he describes some of the lost history of Congress’s offices of legislative counsel (OLC).

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