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Chris Walker
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Law Prof @ umich (formerly Ohio State), ABA AdLaw Section past chair, YaleJREG blogger, #adlaw nerd, dad of four

https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/christopher-j-walker
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On the Gray Matters podcast, Jace Lington and I had a great conversation about Congress, separation of powers, and the future of the administrative state. Details: www.yalejreg.com/nc/gray-cent...
Gray Center Podcast on Congress and the Shifting Sands in Administrative Law - Yale Journal on Regulation
A couple weeks ago I recorded a Gray Matters podcast with Jace Lington, which was a lot of fun. You can give it a listen here. The C. Boyden Gray Center is such a great resource in the field of admini...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Attn #adlaw law geeks: Registration is OPEN for Annual ABA Administrative Law Virtual Conference (11/20-11/21): www.yalejreg.com/nc/registrat...

Terrific program this year. $25 for law students; Thursday 101 programming & Friday developments panels are a great way to do a deep #adlaw dive. 🤓
Registration is OPEN: Annual ABA Administrative Law Virtual Conference, November 20-21, 2025 - Yale Journal on Regulation
The November 20-21, 2025 Annual ABA Administrative Law Conference registration is now open!  Please see the conference brochure for more information and a registration form.  In view of current condit...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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New from Professor @chrisjwalker.bsky.social in the Yale Journal on Regulation:

"Centering Proportionality in the Administrative Procedure Act"

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Centering Proportionality in the Administrative Procedure Act - Yale Journal on Regulation
This post is part of Notice & Comment’s symposium on the Senate Post-Chevron Working Group Report. For other posts in the series, click here. In this era of the rapid change in administrative law—both...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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
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Today the Ninth Circuit denied rehearing en banc in an important immigration case. Mike Kagan and I had filed an amicus brief urging rehearing. The panel opinion had made a mess of Loper Bright.

We did get three judges dissenting, and Judge Bumatay kindly gives our brief a shoutout in his dissent:
August 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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
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Attn adlaw nerds: Emily Bremer's JREG Comparative Administrative Law Scholarship Corner series is terrific: www.yalejreg.com/nc/comparati...

If you're a legal scholar interested in comparative adlaw, I recommend signing up for the comp adlaw scholars listserv (link in post).
Comparative Administrative Law Scholarship Corner (August 2025) - Yale Journal on Regulation
Here is the list of works included in the August 2025 Comparative Administrative Law Scholarship Corner, which is curated by Eduardo Jordão (FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro), with the assistance of Edu...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Attn law review editors: There are some excellent articles in the SSRN #adlaw reading list from last month that are apparently still looking for a home: www.yalejreg.com/nc/administr...
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Over at the JREG Notice and Comment blog, Zach Price as a smart post entitled Moderating the Unitary Executive Branch in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management: www.yalejreg.com/nc/moderatin...
Moderating the Unitary Executive Branch in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, by Zachary S. Price - Yale Journal on Regulation
The Roberts Court has sometimes hinted at supporting a strong version of the “unitary executive branch” theory—one in which Presidents can personally control all executive functions.  The Court’s hint...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Attn adlaw profs to share with students: Yale Law Journal Student Essay Competition: Emerging Issues in the Executive Power www.yalejreg.com/nc/yale-law-...
Yale Law Journal Student Essay Competition: Emerging Issues in the Executive Power - Yale Journal on Regulation
From the Yale Law Journal: The Yale Law Journal’s Ninth Annual Student Essay Competition challenges the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners to reflect on emerging legal problems. This ...
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August 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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New draft on @ssrn.bsky.social: Stare Decisis and the Missing Administrability Inquiry

By Professor @chrisjwalker.bsky.social and @andrewshammond.bsky.social (@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social)

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Screenshot of the following text: Stare Decisis and the Missing Administrability Inquiry New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2025) U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 25-004 40 Pages Posted: 7 Aug 2025 Last revised: 11 Aug 2025 Andrew Hammond Indiana University Maurer School of Law Christopher J. Walker University of Michigan Law School Date Written: August 06, 2025 Abstract Administrative law is undergoing a tremendous amount of change. Presidential administrations have abandoned long-held practices and embraced new strategies to make policy through adjudication and regulation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has reworked foundational principles of federal administrative law including agency independence, adjudication, and legal interpretation. What does the pace and degree of change in administrative law mean for the federal courts? We posit that some answers lie in the Supreme Court’s decision in Kisor v. Wilkie and its application in the lower courts over the last five years. In Kisor v. Wilkie, the Court was asked to reconsider its longstanding precedents concerning judicial deference to federal agencies’ interpretations of their own regulations. The result was a splintered decision that produced more questions than answers. Justice Kagan, writing for the plurality (and in parts, the Court), reaffirmed those precedents, including Auer and Seminole Rock, but also clarified and expanded the ways in which such deference should be constrained. Justice Gorsuch penned the principal opposing opinion, arguing that the Court should abandon Auer deference entirely. Chief Justice Roberts cast the deciding vote based on stare decisis, suggesting that “the
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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New to SSRN: Andrew Hammond and I have posted a draft of a symposium essay from our Kisor dataset, entitled The End of Administrative Pragmatism? This one explores how Kisor, Loper Bright, and Consumers' Research affect theories in administrative law. Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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For users of the Hickman, Pierce, & Walker federal admin law textbook, @chrisjwalker.bsky.social has posted the link to our summer supplement at the Notice & Comment blog. We're working on the 5th edition. Feedback from users is always welcome.
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Last week Kristin Hickman, Dick Pierce, and I finished the 2025 summer update to our federal administrative law casebook. The 5th Edition will be available next summer!

Details and link to update: www.yalejreg.com/nc/summer-20...
Summer 2025 Update to the Hickman-Pierce-Walker Federal Administrative Law: Cases and Materials - Yale Journal on Regulation
Kristin, Dick, and I have just published the Summer 2025 Update to our federal administrative law casebook. From the introduction: Administrative law is a dynamic field, and there are always interesti...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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New to SSRN: Andrew Hammond and I have posted a draft of Stare Decisis and the Missing Administrability Inquiry: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... This is the first paper from our Kisor dataset, and it includes our findings from reviewing all lower-court decisions that invoke Kisor from 2019-2024.
August 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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
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Over at Jotwell, I review Kevin Stack's terrific article The Internal Law of Democracy: adlaw.jotwell.com/shifting-att...
Shifting Attention to Internal Administrative Law in the States - Administrative Law
Kevin M. Stack, The Internal Law of Democracy, 77 Vand. L. Rev. 1627 (2024).Christopher WalkerIn Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 524 (1978), the Supreme Court famously announ...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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
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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
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New from Professor @chrisjwalker.bsky.social:

What FCC v. Consumers’ Research Means for the Future of the Nondelegation Doctrine

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What FCC v. Consumers' Research Means for the Future of the Nondelegation Doctrine - Yale Journal on Regulation
On Friday, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in FCC v. Consumers’ Research, rejecting a nondelegation doctrine challenge to the constitutionality of the FCC’s Universal Service Fund. Writing for...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Attn #adlaw geeks: Call for Panel Proposals -- 2025 ABA Administrative Law Conference (11/20-11/21)
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June 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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
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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
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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
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May 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Appropriations Presidentialism," by @mblawrence.bsky.social, Eloise Pasachoff, and Zachary Price. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
Ad Law Reading Room: "Appropriations Presidentialism," by Lawrence, Pasachoff, and Price - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Appropriations Presidentialism,” by Matthew B. Lawrence, Eloise Pasachoff, and Zachary S. Price, which is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal Online. Here i...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM