Professors Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and Jud Mathews publishing Regulatory Review essays

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA—Over the next two weeks, The Regulatory Review will publish essays by Professors Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and Jud Mathews, as well as other scholars, examining the Supreme Court’s 2025–2026 regulatory term.

The Review, a publication of the Penn Program on Regulation, publishes this annual series of essays from prominent legal scholars and practitioners who weigh the major decisions of the last term and consider their implications for law, governance, regulatory policy, and individual rights.

Wadhia’s essay, titled “The Supreme Court Green Lights TPS Terminations for Haiti and Syria,” will publish on July 22. It discusses the sweeping ruling on temporary protected status tests judicial review, directly impacting thousands.

Mathews’s essay, written with co-author Arden Rowell of the University of Illinois College of Law, is titled “The End of NRC Independence and the Future of Nuclear Safety” and will publish on July 27. It asks, can nuclear safety survive presidential control after the demise of NRC independence?

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is a nationally respected immigration scholar, law professor, author, and attorney. She joined Penn State Dickinson Law as a Clinical Professor of Law in 2008 and was named Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar in 2013.

Wadhia's scholarship has focused on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and policy and the intersection of immigration, race, and national security. She is the author of two award-winning academic press books by New York University Press and co-author of a textbook on Immigration & Nationality Law by Carolina Academic Press.

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Jud Mathews is a Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law with courtesy appointments in Penn State's Department of Political Science and School of International Affairs. His scholarly work focuses mostly on administrative law and constitutional law. He has written extensively about techniques of constitutional rights adjudication, in the United States and in other jurisdictions, and in particular about proportionality review.