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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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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 […]

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New Book by Josh Chafetz: Congress’s Constitution (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Amazon tells me that Josh Chafetz’s new book Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers is now available for purchase. Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading the publisher proofs as I’ll be reviewing the book for the Michigan Law Review later this year. It’s a terrific read and an important and timely contribution to […]

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Update on Portman-Heitkamp Regulatory Accountability Act

On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) reported out favorably the Portman-Heitkamp Regulatory Accountability Act. I’ve blogged about this bipartisan regulatory reform legislation here and here, and I have an more in-depth take on the legislation in an essay forthcoming in Administrative Law Review. Earlier this week, moreover, The Regulatory Review (f/k/a RegBlog) […]

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Litigation Challenging Trump’s Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs

Over at The Regulatory Review today, Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director at NRDC, and Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen, have an essay detailing their lawsuit challenging the lawfulness of the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs. Over at the Library of Law and Liberty blog back in February, Brian Mannix posted […]

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Barnett and Walker on Coenen and Davis on the New Major Questions Doctrine (AdLaw Bridge Series)

As my co-blogger Aaron Nielson covered in his D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed “postscript” two weeks ago, the D.C. Circuit recently denied rehearing in United States Telecom Ass’n v. FCC, which was the challenge to the FCC’s net neutrality regulations. Among more than one hundred pages of separate opinions concerning the denial, Judge Kavanaugh has a […]

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What to Make of the Regulatory Accountablity Act’s Public Hearing Right for >$100M Rules?

Perhaps the most controversial provisions of the Portman-Heitkamp Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 concern the availability of a public hearing for rules that have an economic impact of $100 million or more. The legislation would amend the Administrative Procedure Act to allow interested parties to petition for a public hearing and require the agency to include […]