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Author: Christopher J. Walker

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U.S. v. Texas SCOTUS Immigration Case: Federalist Society Teleforum Thursday

It’s fitting that during our week-long online symposium on the intersection of immigration law and administrative law here at the Yale Journal on Regulation the Federalist Society will be hosting a teleforum Thursday on United States v. Texas — the challenge to the Obama Administration’s executive actions on immigration that the Supreme Court will hear […]

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Legislating in the Shadows

Next week I’m taking my newest project—Legislating in the Shadows—on the road with a law faculty workshop at UNLV on Monday (1/25), and another law faculty workshop at the University of Utah on Wednesday (1/27).* Thanks in advance to the law faculties at UNLV and Utah for reading the early draft of the paper and […]

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FOIA Is Broken: New Chaffetz House Oversight Committee Report

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is in the news this week, with a New York Times piece  that highlights Margaret Kwoka‘s terrific forthcoming Duke Law Journal article FOIA, Inc.— an article Ibriefly blogged  about last week. Now the  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Representative  Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), released a staff report on its investigation […]

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The Tax Court and the Administrative State: Congress Responds to the D.C. Circuit’s Decision in Kuretski, by Stephanie Hoffer and Chris Walker

Congress recently passed its annual “tax extender” legislation: the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (PATH Act) . Although the bulk of the PATH Act extends a variety of tax breaks, as Daniel Hemel notes over at the University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog the last few pages of the more-than-two-hundred-page bill attempt […]

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Stack (and Nou) on Regulatory Interpretation (AdLaw Bridge Series)

Last week the Michigan Law Review published in its online companion a short essay of mine—entitled Inside Regulatory Interpretation: A Research Note—which responds to Kevin Stack’s seminal article on regulatory interpretation Interpreting Regulations. Like Anne O’Connell’s article I reviewed for Jotwell earlier this month, Professor Stack’s article was chosen by the American Bar Association as […]