Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to appoint law Professor MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR, an expert on federal regulatory policy, public safety and international security, to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent agency charged with improving the efficiency and fairness of federal agencies.
Cuéllar, who is the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar, has been on the faculty at the Law School since 2001. He recently returned from a leave of absence he took in early 2009 to serve as special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council. Among other issues, Cuéllar worked on improving food safety and public health policy, expanding support to state and local law enforcement, enhancing transparency in the regulatory process and strengthening border coordination and immigrant integration. He negotiated key provisions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and represented the Domestic Policy Council in the development of the first-ever Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. Earlier, Cuéllar co-chaired the Obama Transition’s Immigration Policy Committee and served as a Treasury official in the Clinton administration.
As part of the ACUS Council, Cuéllar will join leading lawyers such as former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Wald and former Solicitor General Ted Olson in overseeing the work of the ACUS and setting its priorities. With the appointment to the ACUS Council, Cuéllar will draw upon his scholarly expertise in how institutions manage complex regulatory challenges as well as his experience in government.
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