Over at the IP/patent law blog Written Description, Lisa Ouellette has a very thoughtful post on The New World of Agency Adjudication, my new paper with Melissa Wasserman that is forthcoming in the California Law Review next year. Here’s the first and last paragraph: Christopher Walker is a leading administrative law scholar, and Melissa Wasserman‘s excellent work on […]
April has been a busy month here at the Notice and Comment blog, with a terrific, two-week symposium organized by my co-blogger Jennifer Mascott on Lucia v. SEC, the constitutional challenge to the appointment of SEC administrative law judges that the Supreme Court heard on Monday. So my monthly SSRN post is coming a bit […]
Over at the Law and Liberty blog earlier this month I did a quick post, provocatively titled The Federalist Society’s Chevron Deference Dilemma, on my new paper with Kent Barnett and Christina Boyd. I knew suggesting that Chevron deference *may* have some benefits — in particular, reducing partisanship in judicial decisionmaking — was not likely to be well […]
From the Duke Law Journal Editors: The Duke Law Journal invites proposals for its 49th Annual Administrative Law Symposium, to be held in February 2019, at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. The Duke Law Journal’s Administrative Law Symposium has been the premier administrative law event for over four decades. Previous symposia […]
This Term the Supreme Court will decide two cases that could shape the constitutional future of agency adjudication. First, in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, the Court will decide whether certain agency adjudications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office unconstitutionally strip parties of their property rights in issued patents. Second, in […]
Over at the Law and Liberty blog today, I have a post with a provocative (click-baity?) title on Kent Barnett, Christina Boyd, and my new paper Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics (Vanderbilt Law Review forthcoming). Here’s a snippet from my post: The call to eliminate Chevron deference has largely come from those right of center. But it would […]
From my inbox: We want to invite you to join us for our next program, the 2018 Spring Conference (14th Annual Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Institute), on April 27, 2018 at the Park Hyatt in Washington, DC. The Spring Conference will feature a full-day of CLE panels with the top experts covering: Rulemaking 101- […]
Over at Patently-O, Melissa Wasserman and I have the following guest post on our new article: In 2011, Congress created a series of novel proceedings for private parties to challenge issued patents before the newly formed Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). While the PTAB proceedings are immensely popular, they have also been controversial. A series of […]
From the New York Times: Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor known for bringing behavioral science to bear on public policy (not to mention for writing a best-seller about “Star Wars”), has won Norway’s Holberg Prize, which is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts, humanities, the […]
Wow, this month’s SSRN reading list is full of some of my favorite administrative law/public law scholars, including Bulman-Pozen, Heise, Lawson, Metzger, Michaels, Pozen, Sharkey, Stack, and Sunstein! And the papers are fascinating. Here is the February 2018 edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law […]
I was so excited to see Abbe Gluck’s latest article (with Richard Posner)—Statutory Interpretation on the Bench: A Survey of Forty-Two Judges on the Federal Courts of Appeals—hit the Harvard Law Review press over the weekend. Gluck’s empirical and theoretical work on legislation and statutory interpretation is always a must-read, and this article is no […]
Kent Barnett and I recruited political scientist Christina Boyd as a coauthor to mine our Chevron in the circuit courts dataset in a more sophisticated manner. We just posted to SSRN a draft of our latest article from this dataset—Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics—which is forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review. I’ll be blogging more about this […]
I have long admired Jon Michaels’ work on separation of powers and government privatization, so I was thrilled to learn he had further synthesized these strands of his research in a book-length treatment: Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic. And I’m excited we’re hosting this symposium on the book here at the Notice and […]
Last November the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC to consider whether certain agency adjudications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are unconstitutional because they strip parties of their private property rights in a non-Article III forum and without a jury. At oral argument, the justices raised […]
From the Federalist Society Regulatory Transparency Project website: In 2017, the U.S. experienced a dramatic shift in regulatory policy at the federal level. This shift is attributable to a new presidential administration that has made regulatory reform a priority. This priority is evidenced by numerous regulatory initiatives including Executive Order 13771 that directs agencies, among […]