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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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New Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium Issue: The Trump Administration and Administrative Law

Here are the details and links to this terrific symposium, from the Chicago-Kent Law Review website: Vol. 94, Issue 2 The Trump Administration and Administrative Law SYMPOSIUM EDITOR Peter L. Strauss Columbia Law School Table of Contents Live Symposium Articles Preface Peter L. Strauss, Columbia Law School 94 Cʜɪ.-Kᴇɴᴛ L. Rᴇᴠ. 229 (2019) Prosecutors at the Periphery […]

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Nondelegation after Gundy

This Term, in Gundy v. United States, the Supreme Court once again considered whether a statutory grant of authority (here, under the Sex Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act) to a federal agency or executive branch official (here, the Attorney General) violates the nondelegation doctrine. As students of administrative law know, the Court has interpreted […]

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Administrative Law SSRN Reading List, June 2019 Edition

Here is the June 2019 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. Sludge Audits by Cass R. Sunstein The President’s Tax Returns by Andy Grewal Antidiscrimination Laws and the Administrative State: A Skeptic’s Look at Administrative Constitutionalism […]

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ABA AdLaw Section Summer Brownbag Series

These two ABA AdLaw Section brownbags look terrific and timely: Summer Brown-Bag Series Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Regulatory Policy Committee Please join us Wednesday July 24th, 12:00-1:30 PM ET for the Regulation of Social Media? teleconference. Today’s laws and regulations do not address some of the challenges of social media. The United […]

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Call for Nominations: Annual ABA AdLaw Scholarship Awards

Each year, the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice recognizes the best work of administrative law scholarship for the prior year. I write to request nominations for that award. Eligible books and articles are those that were published (copyrighted) during 2018. In general, publications worthy of the Section’s award should be: well written, […]

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What Kisor Means for the Future of Auer Deference: The New Five-Step Kisor Deference Doctrine

Today the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited (at least for adlaw geeks) decision in Kisor v. Wilkie. The question presented in Kisor was whether to eliminate Auer deference (a.k.a. Seminole Rock deference) — the doctrine that commands courts to defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of its own regulation unless the agency’s interpretation is “plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.” […]

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My SCOTUSblog Opinion Analysis of PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropratic

Over at SCOTUSblog last Friday, I did a quick opinion analysis of the Supreme Court’s  decision in PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic. Here’s a snippet from that post: Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down its decision in PDR Network v. Carlton & Harris Chiropractic. The court unanimously agreed to vacate and remand the case to the U.S. Court […]

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Save the Date: 2019 ABA Administrative Law Conference, Nov. 14-15, 2019

2019 Administrative Law Conference November 14-15 | Washington Convention Center | Washington, DC We are excited to announce that the 2019 Administrative Law Conference is now open for registration! This year’s conference features 20 panels providing in-depth analysis of current administrative law and practice, with insights gleaned from faculty who are leaders in government, academia […]

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ABA AdLaw Section’s 15th Annual Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Institute, May 31, 2019 at Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City

We are two weeks away from the ABA AdLaw Section’s 15th Annual Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Institute. Our annual spring conference is a lighter, one-day conference, which focuses on 101 topics and current developments in administration law. The annual fall conference, by contrast, is our two-day extravaganza with dozens of panels on basic and […]

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Bednar Response to Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics

Last fall, in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Kent Barnett, Christina Boyd, and I published the latest article from our Chevron in the circuit courts dataset, titled Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics. Here’s the abstract for that paper: Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. commanded courts to […]