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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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Murphy on Barmore on Auer Deference in the Circuit Trenches (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Last week over at Jotwell, Richard  Murphy reviewed Auer in Action: Deference After Talk America byCynthia Barmore, which was published last year in the Ohio State Law Journal. Here’s a summary of the paper from the SSRN abstract (the paper is available on SSRN here): For decades, judges and commentators took for granted that courts should […]

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Independent From Whom? The Federal Reserve and the Freemasons

There is a rumor out there (which may have just started with this post) that one out of every thirteen copies of Peter Conti-Brown’s new book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve includes a chapter exploring how over the last century the Freemasons have influenced and in some respect controlled the form and […]

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Guestblogging at PrawfsBlawg re: Jr. Law Professor FAQs

For those readers who are law professors (or aspiring law professors), I thought I’d note that I’m guestblogging over at PrawfsBlawg this month, doing series on frequently asked questions by junior law professors concerning scholarship and becoming a voice in one’s field. I plan on doing a dozen or so questions, hopefully crowdsourcing answers from the […]

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Introduction: Symposium on Peter Conti-Brown’s The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve

I’m excited to announce that over the next week or so we will be hosting an online symposium reviewing my co-blogger Peter Conti-Brown’s important new book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve , which was just published by the Princeton University Press. Here’s an overview of the book from the publisher’s website: The […]

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But See Legal Scholars Amicus Brief in United States v. Texas

Last month I highlighted an amicus brief by the “who’s who” of administrative law professors in support the Federal Government in United States v. Texas, in which they argue that the Obama Administration’s executive actions on immigration constitute a general statement of policy and thus are not subject to notice-and-comment rulemaking. Today legal scholars Ronald […]

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Gonzales & Glen on Immigration and Attorney General Referral Authority (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Earlier this week the State Respondents filed their merits brief in United States v. Texas—the challenge to the Obama Administration’s executive actions on immigration the Supreme Court will hear in April. In light of this important case, it seems fitting to highlight a new article just published in the Iowa Law Review by former Attorney […]

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Hickman and Thomson on Post-Promulgation Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Earlier this year my co-blogger Nick Bagley argued that there was “no harm, no foul” in the Obama Administration foregoing notice-and-comment rulemaking with respect to the executive actions on immigration. The Obama Administration provided notice, he argued, by “leak[ing] the proposal to the national media and [holding] a Rose Garden press conference.” The public had […]

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Rao on Delegation’s Demise of the Collective Congress (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Next week I will be presenting my Legislating in the Shadows project as part of a research roundtableat George Mason’s new Center for the Study of the Administrative State, which is directed by Neomi Rao. To mark the occasion, I thought I’d highlight Professor Rao’s terrific new article Administrative Collusion: How Delegation Diminishes the Collective […]

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Vermeule on Cuellar on Administrative Wars (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Last month over at Jotwell, Adrian Vermeule reviewed Administrative War by then-Stanford Law Professor and now-California Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuellar. Justice Cuellar’s article was published in the George Washington Law Review in 2014. Indeed, it was the foreword to the Law Review’s annual administrative law issue, which also included, among others, an article of mine […]