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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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Some Thoughts on Skidmore Weight After Loper Bright

As I mentioned in my preliminary take on the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Court overruled Chevron deference but seemed to preserve some sort of Skidmore “weight” or “respect” while carefully refusing to call it judicial “deference.” As I noted in that post, “[i]t will be fascinating to see how […]

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Winner of the AALS Administrative Law Section’s 2025 Emerging Scholars Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication

From Timothy Lytton on behalf of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American of Law Schools (AALS): The executive committee of the AALS section on Administrative Law and the award selection committee are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Emerging Scholars Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication is Brian D. Feinstein […]

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University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform’s Future of Agency Independence Symposium, 11/8

This coming Friday, November 8th, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform has organized a terrific day-long symposium on the future of agency independence. I’ve attached the schedule with speaker lineup. The student editors have been hard at work planning this gathering, and I’m so excited for the series of conversations we will have […]

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Administrative Law SSRN Reading List, August 2024 Edition

Here is the August 2024 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is edited by Bill Funk. For more on why SSRN and this eJournal are such terrific resources for administrative law scholars and practitioners, check out my first post on the subject here. You can […]

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The Right to a Human Regulator?

With the Supreme Court considering SEC v. Jarkesy last Term, much of the administrative law field debated whether federal agencies should be able to adjudicate disputes in house, or whether some disputes must be tried by a jury in an Article III federal court. The Supreme Court ultimately held that the U.S. Constitution provides a […]

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How We Are Teaching Statutory Interpretation in Administrative Law after Loper Bright

Kristin Hickman, Dick Pierce, and I just finished the 2024 summer update to our federal administrative law casebook. As part of that process, we spent a fair amount of time discussing and structuring how we are going to teach statutory interpretation in our administrative law courses–at least for now—after Loper Bright eliminated Chevron deference. We […]

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Upcoming ACUS Webinars: Recent Administrative Law Developments in the Supreme Court: What’s Next for Agencies?

From the website of the Administrative Conference of the United States: The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is pleased to announce a public forum, Recent Administrative Law Developments in the Supreme Court: What’s Next for Agencies? Across four virtual panels beginning next Tuesday, July 30, ACUS members and researchers will discuss the significance of recent Supreme Court […]

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ACUS Recommendation on Senate-Confirmed Officials and Administrative Adjudication

Last month the Administrative Conference of the United States adopted an important recommendation regarding the role of Senate-confirmed officials in agency adjudication. The recommendation drew three separate statements from members of the Administrative Conference—including a concurring statement from me and Melissa Wasserman and two dissenting statements by Jennifer Dickey, John Duffy, Jenn Mascott, and Kate […]