Introducing ACUS #ThrowbackThursday

AdministrativeFIX is launching a new weekly series focused on the history of ACUS.

Each Thursday, we’ll share anecdotes, reports, photographs, and primary documents from ACUS’s 55-year history. Join us as we explore the agency’s history from the passage of the Administrative Conference Act in August 1964 through the present day.

But while ACUS turns 55 this year, the idea of ACUS stretches back at least another three decades. Over the next several weeks, we’ll discover nine episodes in the prehistory of ACUS, from 1936 to 1964:

• Part 1: The Brownlow Committee and the Concept of Administrative Procedure

• Part 2: The Attorney General’s Committee on Administrative Procedure Proposes an Office of Federal Administrative Procedure

• Part 3: The First Hoover Commission Envisions a Proto-ACUS

• Part 4: The Judicial Conference Looks at Administrative Procedure

• Part 5: President Eisenhower Calls for a Conference on Administrative Procedure

• Part 6: The Second Hoover Commission Calls for an Office of Legal Services and Procedure

• Part 7: The Department of Justice Gets an Office of Administrative Procedure

• Part 8: President Kennedy Calls for an Administrative Conference of the United States

• Part 9: Congress Debates a Permanent ACUS