On 29th December 2025, the Yale Comparative Administrative Law Listserv, the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and the Review of European
Administrative Law Blog (REALaw) organised a online webinar on: Agency Independence in Global Perspective: Law, Legitimacy & Politics.

The immediate trigger for the webinar was the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering a major case, Trump v. Slaughter, that raises the question of the constitutionality of statutory removal protections for commissioners on the Board of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and, more broadly, whether the key precedent which announced the constitutionality of “independent agencies” in the U.S., Humphrey’s Executor (1935), should be overruled. The webinar sought to illuminate agency independence from a comparative perspective (Australia, Canada, EU, and the UK).

Speakers
– Andrea Katz, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law
– Merijn Chamon, Professor of EU Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges)
– Paul Daly, University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance,
University of Ottawa
– Tony Prosser FBA, Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Bristol Law School
– Andrew Edgar, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, Sydney Law School

Moderator : Mariolina Eliantonio, Professor of Law, Maastricht University

Please find the recording of the discussions here