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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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Three Years Ago Today the Senate Dems (Partially) Killed the Filibuster

I am delighted to contribute to this symposium on the 2016 Report to the President-Elect that the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice issued shortly before the presidential election. As Emily Bremer noted in her symposium introduction earlier today, a number of administrative law scholars and experts will be doing short […]

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A Disciplined Regulatory Initiative: Announcing that the Data Quality Act is Judicially Reviewable, by Jim Tozzi

The Data Quality Act (DQA), aka as the Information Quality Act, allows members of the public to file citizen petitions to obtain corrections of inaccurate information disseminated by federal agencies. Consequently the DQA provides a means for the public to obtain corrections in press releases, reports and regulations issued by federal agencies. In essence the […]

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Lots of AdLaw and Regulation Programming at This Week’s Federalist Society Lawyers Convention in DC

The 2016 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention takes place later this week in Washington, DC. The conference theme this year centers on the jurisprudence and legacy of Justice Scalia. In light of the presidential election surprise last week, the theme will no doubt be more prospective — and not just retrospective — than originally planned. […]

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Don’t Quote the Law in the Federal Register!

In the frequently asked questions chapter of the Federal Register Document Drafting Handbook, the Office of the Federal Register provides (in Section 18.7) the following prohibition: It is not appropriate to quote laws and rules in the text of Federal Register documents. Laws may be paraphrased and rules may be cross-referenced if they meet the requirements in […]

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Kovacs on the APA’s Waiver of Sovereign Immunity Puzzle (AdLaw Bridge Series)

I am a big fan of Kathryn Kovacs‘s important work on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and administrative common law (here, here, and here). So I was so excited when the editors of my institution’s main journal, the Ohio State Law Journal, informed me that they would be publishing Professor Kovacs’s latest article, Scalia’s Bargain. […]

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FedSoc Teleforum Tomorrow (Thurs) 3PM on Chevron Deference in the Circuit Courts

[10/31 Update: Apparently we had ninety people on the live teleforum about our study. The Federalist Society has kindly turned the teleforum into a podcast, which is available here. The paper will not be published until next summer, so comments are particularly welcome.] The Federalist Society’s Administrative Law and Regulation Practice Group has graciously organized […]

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Gillian Metzger’s The Constitutional Duty to Supervise Chosen by ABA AdLaw Section as Best Article Published in 2015

Next Friday, October 28th, the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice will hold its annual Administrative Law Section Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C. Each year the ABA AdLaw Section hands out a number of awards, including an award for the best piece of administrative law scholarship published in the last year. This […]

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Sant’Ambrogio & Zimmerman on Class Actions and Agency Adjudication (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Over the last few years Michael Sant’Ambrogio and Adam Zimmerman have been doing very important work on the various adjudicatory tools federal agencies may have available to them to engage in aggregate agency adjudication. First, in The Agency Class Action, published in the Columbia Law Review, they sketch out the theoretical and policy case for […]

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George Washington Law Review’s Annual Review of Administrative Law (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Every year I look forward to the George Washington Law Review‘s Annual Review of Administrative Law, as the editors do a great job of selecting articles for inclusion in the issue. (I’m not just saying that because they published the first article I wrote after joining the law faculty here.) This year’s issue was just published, […]

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Complying with Law: Conference Today at Loyola Chicago

Today the Center for Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law is hosting a terrific conference entitled Complying with Law. Here’s the description from the conference website: The Loyola University Chicago Journal of Regulatory Compliance will host a one-day symposium to launch its inaugural issue and the establishment of the Center for Compliance Studies. […]