Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 authored a commentary in Slate about Donald Trump’s firing of the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission. The commission, created by Congress in 2002…
Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was interviewed by Talking Points Memo about an obscure administrative lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to invalidate a…
Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was interviewed by E&E News about a proposal by the Office of Personnel Management to have civil servants sign a governmentwide nondisclosure agreement (NDA). The measure is…
Professors Nicholas Bednar ’16, David Cleveland, Allan Erbsen, and Daniel Schwarcz co-authored an article for National Law Review about how generative AI systems could fundamentally reshape the practice…
Professor Nick Bednar ’16 was interviewed by STAT News about a new Trump administration policy that makes it easier to fire thousands of federal workers. Critics say the personnel rule will subject a…
Professor Nick Bednar ’16 was recognized by social media platform Bluesky for authoring its Download of the Week. In the abstract of his article “Presidential Control of the Civil Service,” Prof. Bednar…
Professor Nick Bednar ’16 was quoted by the New York Times about a group of former General Services Administration workers who are accusing the Trump administration of breaking the law for…
Professor Nick Bednar ’16 was quoted by E&E News by Politico about how, according to emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, senior executives at the Department of Energy moved…
Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was quoted by the Washington Post about the Trump administration attempt to quash fired federal workers’ appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) by arguing…
Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was quoted by the Washington Post about about the Trump administration’s decision to cancel the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. In past years, the survey has…
Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was quoted in FedScoop about an executive order signed by Donald Trump to establish a new classification of federal workers in policy-related roles who aren’t career civil…
Professor Nicholas Bednar '16 has been appointed as a nonresident fellow to the Brookings Institution's program on Governance Studies. He will use his expertise in administrative capacity and civil-service law to…
