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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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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 The paper will not be published until next summer, so comments are particularly welcome.]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. […]

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Now Available: Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2015, by Michael Tien

Are you looking for an additional way to stay on top of developments in administrative law? Well, you’re in luck! The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice just released its seventeenth edition of Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, covering developments in the field during the 2015 calendar year. The paperback, now […]

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Administrative Law Without Courts

This Friday the Florida State University College of Law is hosting a terrific conference entitled Environmental Law Without Courts. The conference builds on the law school’s prior conference on environmental law without Congress. As the conference website explains, “[t]his conference will bring together prominent environmental and administrative law scholars from across the country, and explore […]

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Auer Deference Inside the Regulatory State: Some Preliminary Findings

Yesterday we had three terrific posts on whether Auer deference actually makes a difference in the federal courts of appeals. In other words, do agencies win more when courts apply Auer deference (also known as Seminole Rock deference) to give an agency’s regulatory interpretation “controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the […]

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AALS AdLaw and Legislation New Voices Call for Papers

At the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in January 2017 (in San Francisco), both the Administrative Law Section and Legislation Section will be hosting again their terrific new voices programs.  I’ve participated in the adlaw section’s program a couple times, and it’s a terrific opportunity to get feedback from senior scholars in the […]