Yes, There is a Positive Side to Occupational Licensing – A New and Helpful Resource
By Ann Wall
If you have practiced administrative law in the last ten years, you know about the movement to deregulate occupational licensing. You have heard the many “licensing – bad, deregulation – good” arguments. Until now, there has not been an accessible legal resource for the opposite approach, “the licensing is good for society” side of the argument. Indeed, that side of the argument was often and publicly disparaged.
Thanks to Jeff Gray, longtime Admin Law Section member and former Section Chair, his new Campbell Law Review article changes that:
In Defense of Occupational Licensing: A Legal Practioner’s Perspective.
This article should be a “must read” for all administrative law practitioners. It includes actual research results as well as a history of occupational licensing and opposition to it. It addresses and counters each of the arguments of occupational licensing opponents.
Jeff has 20 years of experience representing and advising occupational and professional licensing boards, as well as licensees of the boards. That practical experience shows throughout the article, undergirding and enhancing the usual law review footnotes and citations. Jeff’s personal, experience and research-based comments make the article useful and easy to read.
I recommend that you take the time to read this article.