Bridget C.E. Dooling, B.B.A., J.D.
Education
- JD, George Mason University School of Law (2006)
- BBA, The George Washington University (2001)
Biography
Bridget Dooling is a nationally recognized expert on administrative law and regulatory policy. Her scholarship on regulatory matters has been published in leading legal journals including the Duke Law Journal, the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, the American University Law Review and The Annals of Health Law.
Professor Dooling teaches courses on legislation and regulation, administrative law and other regulatory topics. She recently completed a 3-year term on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and is a Senior Fellow at the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). She is serving a 3-year term as a member of the National Methadone Access and Quality Commission.
Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Dooling was a research professor with the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and a professor of law (by courtesy) at GW Law. Before that, Professor Dooling spent over 10 years in the federal government as a deputy chief, senior policy analyst and attorney for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. She also served on Biden-Harris Presidential Transition Team as a member of the agency review teams for the Office of Management and Budget and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Dooling is active with the Food & Drug Law Institute, currently serving on the editorial board of the Food & Drug Law Journal. She is a regular contributor to the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice & Comment blog.
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Bridget Dooling, Ghostwriting the Government, 109 Marq. L. Rev. 767 (2026)
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Kristin E. Hickman & Bridget Dooling, Delay, Politics, and Expertise in OIRA Tax Review, 45 Va. Tax Rev. 125 (2025)
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Katharine Jackson & Bridget Dooling, Corner Post, Caremark and the Rule of Law: When Corporate Fiduciaries Should Reject Corner Post's Invitation to Sue, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. (2025)
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Bridget Dooling & Rachel Augustine Potter, Regulatory Body Shops, 73 Duke L.J. 1677 (2024)
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Victor Roy, Michele J. Buonora, Caty Simon, Bridget Dooling & Paul Joudrey, Adoption of Methadone Take Home Policy by U.S. State Opioid Treatment Authorities During COVID-19, 124 Int'l J. Drug Pol'y 104302 (2024)
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Kristin E. Hickman & Bridget Dooling, Competing Narratives in OIRA Review of Tax Regulations, 19 J.L. Econ. & Pol'y 272 (2024)
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Bridget Dooling & Laura E. Stanley, Methadone's Regulatory Thicket, 32 Annals Health L. 191 (2023)
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Bridget Dooling & Kristin E. Hickman, Applying the Regulatory Report Card to Tax Regulations, J. Benefit-Cost Analysis (forthcoming 2023)
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Steven J. Balla, Bridget Dooling & Daniel Pérez, Beyond Republicans and the Disapproval of Regulations: A New Empirical Approach to the Congressional Review Act, 20 Empirical Legal Stud. 472 (2023)
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Noa Krawczyk, Bianca D. Rivera, Emily Levin & Bridget Dooling, Pandemic Telehealth Flexibilities for Buprenorphine Treatment: A Synthesis of Evidence and Policy Implications for Expanding Opioid Use Disorder Care in the United States, 1 Health Affairs Scholar QXAD013 (2023)
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Noa Krawczyk, Bianca D. Rivera, Emily Levin & Bridget Dooling, Synthesizing Evidence of the Effects of COVID-19 Regulatory Changes on Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Implications for Policy, 8 Lancet Pub. Health E238 (2023)
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Bridget Dooling & Rachel A. Potter, Rulemaking by Contract, 74 Admin. L. Rev. 703 (2022)
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Steven J. Balla, Reeve Bull, Bridget Dooling, Emily Hammond, Michael Herz, Michael Livermore & Beth Simone Noveck, Responding to Mass, Computer-Generated, and Malattributed Comments, 74 Admin. L. Rev. 95 (2022)
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Bridget Dooling & Laura Stanley, Extending Pandemic Flexibilities for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Authorities and Methods, 106 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 74 (2021)
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Bridget Dooling, Into the Void: GAO's Role in the Regulatory State, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. 387 (2020)
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Bridget Dooling, Bespoke Regulatory Review, 81 Ohio St. L.J. 673 (2020)
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Bridget Dooling, OIRA's Expanded Review of Tax Regulations and Its Surprising Implications, 3 Bus. Entrepreneurship & Tax L. Rev. 224 (2019)