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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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FSU’s Environmental Law Without Courts Symposium Issue

Last year I blogged about a terrific symposium hosted by the Florida State University College of Law, entitled Environmental Law Without Courts. Florida State’s Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law just published the symposium issue, which includes short essays by the various presenters and shorter reactions by the assigned respondents. My contribution, Lawmaking Within Federal Agencies […]

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Exciting Additions to Jotwell’s Administrative Law Section

As I first noted on the blog back three years ago, the Administrative Law Section of Jotwell—The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)—is a terrific resource for administrative law practitioners and scholars. Each month Jotwell’s Administrative Law Section publishes a short review of a current piece of administrative law scholarship, usually authored by one of […]

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Shane on Seifter on Gubernatorial Administration (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Last month over at Jotwell my colleague Peter Shane published a terrific review of one of my favorite new administrative law articles of the year: Miriam Seifter’s Gubernatorial Administration, which is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. Miriam’s article is brilliant, and such an important contribution to the field and a call for more of us […]

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SEALS Panel Recap on The Future of Independent Agencies after PHH Corp v. CFPB

Each summer the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) hosts an amazing conference of law professors (some day I will go!), full of great panels and discussion on hot topics and cutting-edge research in law and policy. This year’s conference was no exception. But this year SEALS added a terrific innovation of providing recaps on many […]

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Judicial Deference under the Regulatory Accountability Act

Since I last blogged about the Portman-Heitkamp Regulatory Accountability Act being reported favorably out of committee in May, there hasn’t been any movement on the legislative front. A number of additional administrative law scholars, however, have weighed in, and the legislation continues to get serious attention in policy circles. For instance, Cass Sunstein has a generally […]

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Stephen Presser on Law Professors Shaping American Law

Last week I had the opportunity to debate/discuss the modern administrative state with Stephen Presser at an event hosted by the Federalist Society’s Austin, Texas, Lawyers’ Chapter. In preparation for our discussion, I read Professor Presser’s fascinating new book Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law. Although the book is not focused on administrative law, I […]

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AALS Call for Papers: “New Voices in Legislation”

Here is the call-for-papers information for this terrific annual workshop at the AALS 2018 Annual Meeting: The AALS Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process is pleased to announce that it will host a “New Voices in Legislation” program during the 2018 AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.  This works-in-progress program will […]

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Scholars’ Letter in Support of Neomi Rao Nomination as OIRA Administrator

Next Wednesday, June 7, at 10:00AM the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) will hold its hearing on the nomination of Neomi Rao to serve as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — a position which is been dubbed the President’s “regulatory czar.” This morning we submitted to HSGAC a letter from […]