Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews


Christopher J. Walker, I’m Just a Presidential Directive (Reviewing Tara Leigh Grove’s Presidential Laws and the Missing Interpretive Theory), JOTWELL (September 27, 2019) (2019).
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Christopher J. Walker, Constitutional Tensions in Agency Adjudication, 104 Iowa L. Rev. 2679 (2019).
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Christopher J. Walker & Jonathan H. Adler, Delegation and Time, Iowa Law Review (2019) (forthcoming).
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Christopher J. Walker, Looking Inside Multi-Member Agency Statutory Interpretation, 2019 Jotwell: J. Things We Like 1 (2019).
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Christopher J. Walker & Melissa F. Wasserman, The New World of Agency Adjudication, 107 Cal. L. Rev. 141 (2019).
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Christopher J. Walker, The Federalist Society’s Chevron Deference Dilemma, Liberty Law Forum (Aug. 3, 2018) reprinted in 2018 Sup. Ct. Preview 409 (2018-2019). (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Kent Barnett, & Christina L. Boyd, Judge Kavanaugh, Chevron Deference, and the Supreme Court, Regulatory Rev. (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Kent Barnett & Christina L. Boyd,, Chevron Patterns in the Circuit Courts, 43 Admin. & Reg. L. News 4 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker & Aaron L. Nielson, A Qualified Defense of Qualified Immunity, 93 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1853 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Kent H. Barnett, & Christina L. Boyd, Gaming the Chevron Doctrine?, (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Administrative Law Without Courts, 65 UCLA L. Rev. 1620 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Kent Barnett & Christina L. Boyd, Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics, 71 Vand. L. Rev. 1463 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker & Kent Barnett, Chevron Step Two’s Domain, 93 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1441 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Restoring Congress’s Role in the Modern Administrative State, 116 Mich. L. Rev. 1101 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Attacking Auer and Chevron Deference: A Literature Review, 16 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 103 (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, Chevron in the Circuit Courts: The Codebook Appendix, 116 Mich. L. Rev. Online 1 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker, An Empirical Window into Retrospective Review, 2017 Jotwell: J. Things We Like 1 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker, Kent H. Barnett & Christina L. Boyd, The Politics of Selecting Chevron Deference, (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker & Kent Barnett, Short-Circuiting the New Major Questions Doctrine, 70 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 147 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker, Modernizing the Administrative Procedure Act, 69 Admin. L. Rev. 629 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker, Lawmaking within Federal Agencies and Without Judicial Review, 32 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 551 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker, Against Remedial Restraint in Administrative Law, 117 Colum. L. Rev. Online 106 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker, Legislating in the Shadows, 165 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1377 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker & Kent H. Barnett, Chevron in the Circuit Courts, 116 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (2017).
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Christopher J. Walker & Stephanie Hoffer, A Few More Words on Ax and the Future of Tax Court Exceptionalism, Procedurally Taxing (Apr. 15, 2016) (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Do Judicial Deference Doctrines Actually Matter?, Liberty Law Forum (Aug. 25, 2016) (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Complete Junior Law Prawfs FAQs Series, PrawfsBlawg (Apr. 2016) (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, The Costs of Immigration Exceptionalism, Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (Feb 9, 2016) (2016).
Links: Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment

Christopher J. Walker, (Incrementally) Toward a More Libertarian Bureaucracy, Liberty Law Forum (Feb. 8, 2016) (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker & Matthew Wiener, Agency Adjudication, 2016 Dev. Admin. L. & Reg. Prac. 3 (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Aaron Nielsen, et al., Reflections on Seminole Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of Deference to Agency Regulatory Interpretations, Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Toward a Context-Specific Chevron Deference, 81 Mo. L. Rev. 1095 (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Chevron Deference and Patent Exceptionalism, 65 Duke L.J. Online 149 (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker & Aaron L. Nielson, Strategic Immunity, 66 Emory L.J. 55 (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Referral, Remand, and Dialogue in Administrative Law, 101 Iowa L. Rev. Bull. 84 (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker & Aaron L. Nielson, The New Qualified Immunity, 89 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2016).
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Christopher J. Walker, Fringe Administration Law, 2015 Jotwell: J. Things We Like [221] (2015).
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Christopher J. Walker & Matthew Wiener, Administrative Adjudication, 2015 Dev. Admin. L. & Reg. Prac. 3 (2015).
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Christopher J. Walker, Inside Regulatory Interpretation: A Research Note, 114 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 61 (2015).
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Christopher J. Walker & Stephanie Hoffer, Is the Chief Justice a Tax Lawyer?, 43 Pepp. L. Rev. 33 (2015).
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Christopher J. Walker, Federal Agencies in the Legislative Process: Technical Assistance in Statutory Drafting (Final Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States), (2015).
Links: SSRN | Administrative Conference of the United States

Christopher J. Walker, Dakota S. Rudesill & Daniel P. Tokaji, A Program in Legislation, 65 J. Legal Educ. 70 (2015).
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Christopher J. Walker, Inside Agency Statutory Interpretation, 67 Stan. L. Rev. 999 (2015).
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Christopher J. Walker & Stephanie Hoffer, Kuretski, the Tax Court, and the Administrative Procedure Act, Procedurally Taxing (June 23, 2014) (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker, Taking Administrative Law to Tax Exceptionalism, Jotwell: J. Things We Like [113] (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker & Stephanie Hoffer, The Death of Tax Exceptionalism’s Next Victim: The United States Tax Court, Procedurally Taxing (Apr. 17, 2014) (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker & Andrew T. Mikac, Reading Law in the Classroom, 18 Green Bag 2d 19 (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker & Peter M. Shane, Foreword — Chevron at 30: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 83 Fordham L. Rev. 475 (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker, Chevron Inside the Regulatory State: An Empirical Assessment, 83 Fordham L. Rev. 703 (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker, Does the Legal Standard Matter? Empirical Answers to Justice Kennedy’s Questions in Nken v. Holder, 75 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 29 (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker & Stephanie Hoffer, The Death of Tax Court Exceptionalism, 99 Minn. L. Rev. 221 (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker, The Ordinary Remand Rule and the Judicial Toolbox for Agency Dialogue, 82 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1553 (2014).
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Christopher J. Walker & Paul Rose, Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Tool for Good Governance in Financial Regulation, Reg, Rev. (Aug. 19, 2013) (2013).
Links: | The Regulatory Review

Christopher J. Walker, Does Congress Really Mean to Delegate Interpretative Authority to Agencies, 2013 Jotwell: J. Things We Like [48] (2013).
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Christopher J. Walker & Paul Rose, The Importance of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation, Report for U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2013).
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Christopher J. Walker, How to Win the Deference Lottery, 91 Tex. L. Rev. See Also 73 (2013).
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Christopher J. Walker & Paul Rose, Dodd-Frank Regulators, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Agency Capture, 66 Stan. L. Rev. Online 9 (2013).
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Christopher J. Walker, Avoiding Normative Canons in Review of Administrative Interpretations of Law: A Brand X Doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance, 64 Admin. L. Rev. 139 (2012).
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Christopher J. Walker & Deborah L. Rhode, Gender Equity in College Athletics: Women Coaches as a Case Study, 4 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 1 (2008).
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Christopher J. Walker, Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Post-Menem Argentina, 14 Sw. J. L. & Trade Am. 89 (2007).
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Christopher J. Walker, Border Vigilantism and Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 10 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 135 (2007).
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Christopher J. Walker, Lawrence M. Friedman & Ben Hernandez-Stern, The Inheritance Process in San Bernardino County, California, 1964: A Research Note, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 1445 (2007).
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Christopher J. Walker, Toward Democratic Consolidation? The Argentine Supreme Court, Judicial Independence, and the Rule of Law, 18 Fla. J. Int'l L. 745 (2006).
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Christopher J. Walker, The History of School Trust Lands in Nevada: The No Child Left Behind Act of 1864, 7 Nev. L.J. 110 (2006).
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Christopher J. Walker, Adequate Access or Equal Treatment: Looking Beyond the Idea to Section 504 in a Post-Schaffer Public School, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 1563 (2006).
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Christopher J. Walker, Female Entrepreneurship and Business Consortiums: Prospective Solutions for Argentina’s Economic Challenges, 16 J. Pub. & Int'l Affairs 94 (2005).
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Christopher J. Walker, Due Diligence and Local Business Consortiums: The Untapped Resource in Transnational Business Expansion, 6 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 179 (2004).
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Christopher J. Walker, Chevron’s Origin Story, 2016 Jotwell: J. Things We Like [356],
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Christopher J. Walker & Stephanie Hoffer, The Tax Court and the Administrative State: Congress Responds to the D.C. Circuit’s Decision in Kuretski, Tax Prof Blog (Dec. 28, 2015)
Links: | Tax Prof Blog

Christopher J. Walker, Courts Regulating the Regulators, Reg, Rev. (Apr. 25, 2016)
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Blogs and Blog Posts


Christopher J. Walker, Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment, (2019).
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Book Chapters


Christopher J. Walker & Matthew Wiener, Agency Adjudication, Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (American Bar Association ed.) (2018).
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Christopher J. Walker, The Insider’s Guide to the Supreme Court of the United States, Appellate Practice Compendium (Dana Livingston, ed.) (2012).
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Christopher J. Walker & Gregory Curtin, A Comparative Analysis of E-Government in Latin America: Applied Findings from the United Nations Global E-Government Readiness Report, Latin America online : cases, successes, and pitfalls (2007).
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