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Jan 22, 2025 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
The University of Michigan Law School is very pleased to host the Tenth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 19-20, 2025. For the past nine years, the Roundtable has offered administrative law scholars an excellent opportunity to get feedback on their work from distinguished scholars in a collaborative setting. Approximately twelve authors will be selected to workshop their papers in a series of individual sessions, one for each paper, over the course of a day and a half.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
Today the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus curiae brief in support of neither party in FCC v. Consumers’ Research, articulating a proportional approach to the nondelegation doctrine. Here’s the start of the argument:The Constitution vests the Legislature with discretion in making policy and vests the Executive with discretion in executing the law. It is an easy enough line to recite, but a more difficult one to police.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Christopher Walker
Are we alone in the universe? The answer is almost certainly no. Given the vastness of the cosmos and the fact that its physical laws allowed life to emerge at least one place—on Earth—the existence of life elsewhere is effectively guaranteed. But so far, despite generations of looking, we haven’t found it.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
As I mentioned in my preliminary take on the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
From Timothy Lytton on behalf of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American of Law Schools (AALS):The executive committee of the AALS section on Administrative Law and the award selection committee are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Emerging Scholars Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication is Brian D. Feinstein for his article Legitimizing Agencies, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 919 (2024). Thank you to all who submitted nominations.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
This coming Friday, November 8th, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform has organized a terrific day-long symposium on the future of agency independence. I’ve attached the schedule with speaker lineup.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
This is been such a busy semester, so I’m barely getting this posted before the end of October. But here is the September 2024 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is edited by Bill Funk. The Consequences of Loper Bright by Cass R. SunsteinBrave New World? Human Welfare and Paternalistic AI by Cass R.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
Here is the August 2024 Edition of the most-downloaded recent papers (those announced in the last 60 days) from SSRN’s U.S. Administrative Law eJournal, which is edited by Bill Funk. • The Consequences of Loper Bright by Cass R. Sunstein• Brave New World? Human Welfare and Paternalistic AI by Cass R. Sunstein (Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forthcoming)• “Congress in a Post-Chevron World”: Hearing Before the House of Representatives Committee on House Administration, 118th Cong.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Administrative Law is pleased to announce the “New Voices in Administrative Law” program for the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting, which will be held in January in San Francisco, CA. The New Voices program gives junior administrative law scholars an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their work from more senior reviewers before publication. We welcome submission of early-stage drafts and encourage eligible scholars to participate.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
yalejreg.com | Christopher Walker
Register today for the ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice’s annual Virtual Live Fall CLE Conference on Thursday, November 7, and Friday, November 8, 2024. Over the course of two days, you can participate in 8 panels and seek up to 12.5 hours of online live CLE credit. As a full conference attendees, you’ll also gain access to online video recordings of all 24 panels for 30 days following the event.
