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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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Brookings Series on Regulatory Process and Perspective

Over at Brookings’ Center on Regulation and Markets, Philip Wallach has started a terrific new Regulatory Process and Perspective Series, with Anne Joseph O’Connell, Rachel Augustine Potter, and Connor Raso as regular contributors. Here is Wallach’s introduction to the series: Regulatory process” is a phrase that can’t help but sound boring— to many people, it […]

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Regulatory Review Series on Verkuil’s Valuing Bureaucracy

Paul Verkuil, former Chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States and former law school dean at Tulane and Cardozo, published an important new book this summer entitled Valuing Bureaucracy: The Case for Professional Government (Cambridge University Press). Here’s the description of the book from the CUP website: To be effective, government must be […]

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Perspectives on the FCC’s Proposed Restoring Internet Freedom Order

The Free State Foundation has released a set of short, generally positive reactions to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which would undo the FCC’s net neutrality/open internet order. The contributors include Babette Boliek, Timothy Brennan, Michelle Connolly, Robert Crandall, Richard Epstein, Gus Hurwitz, Daniel Lyons, James Prieger, and Christopher Yoo. I also contributed a […]

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ABA AdLaw Section Teleforum, 12/4: Dueling Acting Directors at the CFPB: Statutory and Constitutional Issues

Anne Joseph O’Connell has organized a terrific ABA teleforum on the CFPB dueling directors dispute for December 4, 2017, from 3PM-4PM eastern. It’s free and open to the public, but you must register here. [12/1 Update: The ABA has recruited two additional panelists — Nina Mendelson and Jonathan Adlaw — so I’ve updated the post […]

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The Administrative Law Angle of the Calabresi-Hirji Proposed Judgeship Bill

Steve Calabresi nearly broke the internet (see, e.g., here, here, and here) by proposing last week at the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention that the Trump Administration should add more judges to the federal judiciary. His proposal, coauthored with Shams Hirji, is available on SSRN here. Here’s a summary of the proposal: This paper argues that the […]

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Price on Congress’s Power of the Purse (AdLaw Bridge Series)

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Josh Chafetz’s new book Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers. I’ve talked about it at numerous conferences and reviewed it for the Michigan Law Review (draft review here). Congress’s Constitution focuses on six powers Congress has to compete with the other branches in our separation-of-powers framework […]

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My Thoughts via Jotwell on Dynamic Rulemaking (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Over at Jotwell last month, I reviewed a terrific new article by Wendy Wagner, William West, Thomas McGarity, and Lisa Peters entitled Dynamic Rulemaking. It was published in the NYU Law Review earlier this year. Here’s a taste of the review: Despite bipartisan calls for more-rigorous retrospective review, we have little empirical insight into how agencies review regulations today. Enter […]