Dan Deacon
@dtdeacon.bsky.social
Law Prof (Michigan Law), writing mostly about administrative law
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law,” forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, by Wendy Wagner. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law," by Wendy Wagner - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law,” by Wendy E. Wagner, which is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review. Here is the abs...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law,” forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, by Wendy Wagner. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases," by Sam Bray. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases," by Samuel Bray - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases,” by Samuel L. Bray. Here is the abstract: When a federal officer challenges her removal by the president, what forms of int...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases," by Sam Bray. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
My article, "Statutory Liquidation," is now in final form.
Check it out on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Or at the Administrative Law Review website: administrativelawreview.org/volume-77-is...
Thank you to the many who helped improve it!
Check it out on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Or at the Administrative Law Review website: administrativelawreview.org/volume-77-is...
Thank you to the many who helped improve it!
Volume 77, Issue 3 - American University Administrative Law Review
Table of Contents Articles Statutory Liquidation Daniel T. Deacon Testing the Independence Hypothesis Cree Jones, Tyler B. Lindley, & Thomas Smith The Independence of Central Bank Supervision Christin...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
My article, "Statutory Liquidation," is now in final form.
Check it out on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Or at the Administrative Law Review website: administrativelawreview.org/volume-77-is...
Thank you to the many who helped improve it!
Check it out on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Or at the Administrative Law Review website: administrativelawreview.org/volume-77-is...
Thank you to the many who helped improve it!
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Officers at Common Law," forthcoming in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social, by @nwdonahue.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Officers at Common Law," by Nathaniel Donahue - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Officers at Common Law,” by Nathaniel Donahue, which is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. Here is the abstract: The Framers of the federal Constitution said al...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Officers at Common Law," forthcoming in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social, by @nwdonahue.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Rubber Stamps" by Adam Samaha. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Rubber Stamps," by Adam Samaha - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Rubber Stamps,” by Adam M. Samaha. Here is the abstract: Rubber-stamping is more often alleged than understood. The basic idea involves someone with formal author...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Rubber Stamps" by Adam Samaha. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
My opening day Leg Reg video reminded me of this amazing tweet
August 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My opening day Leg Reg video reminded me of this amazing tweet
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social and @dfroomkin.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," by Coglianese and Froomkin - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Loper Bright’s Disingenuity,” by Cary Coglianese and David Froomkin. Here is the abstract: Loper Bright prompted a tidal wave of reaction throughout the legal com...
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August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social and @dfroomkin.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Excited that "Legalistic Noncompliance," with @leahlitman.bsky.social, is now forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal. Check it out here! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Legalistic Noncompliance
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump
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August 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Excited that "Legalistic Noncompliance," with @leahlitman.bsky.social, is now forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal. Check it out here! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room covers two pieces: "Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State" by @jennifernou.bsky.social and "The Chadha Presidency" by @joshchafetz.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State," by Nou & "The Chadha Presidency," by Chafetz - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room brings two entries. The first is “Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State,” forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, by Jennifer Nou. The second is “The Chad...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room covers two pieces: "Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State" by @jennifernou.bsky.social and "The Chadha Presidency" by @joshchafetz.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I just uploaded a new/revised version of our paper “Legalistic Noncompliance.”
It’s about the Trump admin’s noncompliance with court orders - and how they’re using legal arguments to paper that over and conceal their defiance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It’s about the Trump admin’s noncompliance with court orders - and how they’re using legal arguments to paper that over and conceal their defiance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Legalistic Noncompliance
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump
papers.ssrn.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I just uploaded a new/revised version of our paper “Legalistic Noncompliance.”
It’s about the Trump admin’s noncompliance with court orders - and how they’re using legal arguments to paper that over and conceal their defiance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It’s about the Trump admin’s noncompliance with court orders - and how they’re using legal arguments to paper that over and conceal their defiance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” by Matthew Stephenson. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright," by Matthew Stephenson - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” by Matthew Stephenson. Here is the abstract: In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, the Supreme ...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” by Matthew Stephenson. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses," by Richard Revesz. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses," by Richard Revesz - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses,” by Richard L. Revesz, which is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review. Here is the abstract: Over ...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses," by Richard Revesz. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
I'm editing a treatise chapter right now, and it's interestingly fulfilling in a different kind of way than other academic work. Don't tell the people voting on my tenure (wait, you say they're on here?), but I sort of envy the generations who could make a name this way.
June 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm editing a treatise chapter right now, and it's interestingly fulfilling in a different kind of way than other academic work. Don't tell the people voting on my tenure (wait, you say they're on here?), but I sort of envy the generations who could make a name this way.
Nodded at Alan Colmes while checking out behind him at Gristedes
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Nodded at Alan Colmes while checking out behind him at Gristedes
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Leah’s Lawless book party was a stream of hilarious jokes and insightful commentary, just like the book itself. So fun. @leahlitman.bsky.social @dtdeacon.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Leah’s Lawless book party was a stream of hilarious jokes and insightful commentary, just like the book itself. So fun. @leahlitman.bsky.social @dtdeacon.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism,” by Julie E. Cohen, Nina-Simone Edwards, Meg Leta Jones, and @paulohm.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism," by Cohen, Edwards, Jones, and Ohm - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism,” by Julie E. Cohen, Nina-Simone Edwards, Meg Leta Jones, and Paul Ohm. Here is the abstract: The admini...
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June 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism,” by Julie E. Cohen, Nina-Simone Edwards, Meg Leta Jones, and @paulohm.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
It's been a marathon week of conferences for me, but it was great to meet and engage with a lot of new folks at the HYS JFF!
It’s a wrap on the H/Y/S Junior Faculty Forum—such an incredible & enriching experience! Thanks Rebecca Tushnet, Christine Jolls & Norman Spaulding🙏🏻 @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social @shlorr.bsky.social @dandeacon.bsky.social @nicolesummers.bsky.social @johnmeixner.bsky.social @britta-redwood.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's been a marathon week of conferences for me, but it was great to meet and engage with a lot of new folks at the HYS JFF!
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Professors @dtdeacon.bsky.social and Daniel Fryer, ’18, will present their research at the 2025 Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, which will be held June 2–3. They are two of just 15 legal scholars selected from law schools across the country.
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Professors Deacon and Fryer Will Present Research at Upcoming Harvard-Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum | University of Michigan Law School
Professors Daniel Deacon and Daniel Fryer, ’18, will present their research at the 2025 Harvard-Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, which will be held June 2–3. They are two of just 15 legal scholars ...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Professors @dtdeacon.bsky.social and Daniel Fryer, ’18, will present their research at the 2025 Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, which will be held June 2–3. They are two of just 15 legal scholars selected from law schools across the country.
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ICYMI: Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about how the Trump admin uses the language of the law as cover to claim it is complying with court orders - when in fact it's not. And how courts respond.
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How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
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May 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
ICYMI: Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about how the Trump admin uses the language of the law as cover to claim it is complying with court orders - when in fact it's not. And how courts respond.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Reposted by Dan Deacon
The Trump administration uses the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not, Leah Litman and Daniel Deacon write. “We call this ‘legalistic noncompliance.’”
The Strategy the Trump Administration Is Using to Hide Its Court Defiance
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
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May 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Trump administration uses the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not, Leah Litman and Daniel Deacon write. “We call this ‘legalistic noncompliance.’”
Over at @theatlantic.com, @leahlitman.bsky.social and I summarize our study of the Trump administration's practice regarding judicial orders, which we term "legalistic noncompliance" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Strategy the Trump Administration Is Using to Hide Its Court Defiance
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
www.theatlantic.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Over at @theatlantic.com, @leahlitman.bsky.social and I summarize our study of the Trump administration's practice regarding judicial orders, which we term "legalistic noncompliance" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking,” by Rephael Stern. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking," by Rephael Stern - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking,” by Rephael G. Stern, which was recently published by the Yale Law Journal and posted to SSRN. Here is t...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking,” by Rephael Stern. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for highly recommending “Legalistic Noncompliance” by me and @leahlitman.bsky.social! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...
Deacon & Litman on Legalistic Executive Noncompliance with Judicial Orders
Daniel Deacon (University of Michigan Law School) & Leah Litman (University of Michigan Law School) have posted Legalistic Noncompliance on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Will the executive branch comply...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for highly recommending “Legalistic Noncompliance” by me and @leahlitman.bsky.social! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...
New paper from me and @leahlitman.bsky.social, entitled "Legalistic Noncompliance," taking stock of the second Trump administration's emerging practice with respect to judicial orders. It's on the "draft-y" side -- comments welcomed! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Legalistic Noncompliance
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump
papers.ssrn.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New paper from me and @leahlitman.bsky.social, entitled "Legalistic Noncompliance," taking stock of the second Trump administration's emerging practice with respect to judicial orders. It's on the "draft-y" side -- comments welcomed! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I feel like NBA teams shouldn't wear their gimmick uniforms in game 7s. Undignified.
May 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I feel like NBA teams shouldn't wear their gimmick uniforms in game 7s. Undignified.