For #adlaw folks: Due to logistical issues from the federal gov't shutdown, ABA Admin Law has replaced its usual fall conference with a shorter but free online event on 11/21. Registration is required, but it's 6.5 hrs of free, quality CLE on admin law topics. events.americanbar.org/event/a13a77...

Congratulations and best wishes to @umnlawschool.bsky.social alum Kyle Hawkins on his appointment to the Texas Supreme Court!

New sites for Legal Theory Blog and Legal Theory Lexicon. Pass it on. Many thanks @lsolum.bsky.social for your continued service to the law and the legal academy with these sites!

Delighted to be at UNC Law today to present a forthcoming @uvalaw.bsky.social Tax Review article on OIRA review of tax regs, co-authored with @bridgetdooling.bsky.social -- Delay, Politics & Expertise in OIRA Tax Review. Lots of great data, draft coming soon @ssrn.bsky.social.

Many thanks to CA6 Judge Amul Thapar for taking the time to talk with different groups of @umnlawschool.bsky.social students & faculty today, & to our student Federalist Society chapter for taking the lead on hosting him.

For those who follow tax & admin, the 8th Circuit just reversed the Tax Court in favor of the taxpayer in the big 3M transfer pricing case, citing Loper Bright plus the #SCOTUS First Security Bank decision, & treating Brand X as dead (rightly IMO). ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/10/233772P.pdf

Delighted to be @umichlaw.bsky.social today to present my paper with Amy Wildermuth, Harmonizing Delegation and Deference After Loper Bright, at the public law workshop. Many thanks to @jdmortenson.bsky.social & @profrrothschild.bsky.social for inviting me. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

From @orinkerr.bsky.social, highly recommended for my 1L students, although my 2Ls and 3Ls might also glean insights given the benefit of hindsight.

This from @orinkerr.bsky.social is so true. Also recommend the essay.

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.

Always interested in what @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social has to say about acting appointments. Here with @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social about the New Jersey U.S. Attorney situation. executivefunctions.substack.com/p/anne-josep...

New work from @kewhittington.bsky.social on diversity statements, academic freedom, and the first amendment, forthcoming Nebraska L. Rev., via @volokhc.bsky.social, the link is here: kewhitt.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

Congratulations to my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @niaolainf.bsky.social upon receiving this special honor.

Attention law profs and other authors. My @umnlawschool.bsky.social Minnesota Law Review students do a great job with the editing process. Submit today!

Delighted to boost this new paper from @tphillips.bsky.social and my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @nicholasbednar.bsky.social, just posted @ssrn.bsky.social. Very important issue! Per Nick, it has graphs! Check it out!

For those who follow admin law developments, the bi-annual ACUS plenary is underway, considering recommendations for agency investigative procedures; consultation with state, local, & tribal governments; & public participation in agency adjudications. It's livestreamed. www.acus.gov/event/83rd-p...

uper excited that the special supplement of the Admin Law Treatise on statutory & regulatory interpretation in admin law after Loper Bright is now out @wolterskluwer.com! Lots of great stuff. See 👇

1/2: Happy to say that my Duke Law Journal Online (@dukelaw.bsky.social) essay on Skidmore after Loper Bright has been published. The DLJ student editors did a great job. I am grateful for their hard work & enthusiasm. scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj_online/1... I have one follow-on thought below:

Congratulations to my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @nicholasbednar.bsky.social! Publication is a great excuse to check out the final version of the article, even if you read an earlier draft.

Congrats to @nyulawreview.bsky.social & @policyintegrity.bsky.social for a fantastic symposium. Interesting & timely remarks from @chris_j_walker & many others. So grateful for the opportunity to join & highlight Harmonizing Delegation & Deference After Loper Bright. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to be traveling to @dukelaw.bsky.social for the annual Duke Law Journal administrative law symposium. I will be commenting on Jarkesy's Stakes for the SEC by @jamesftierney.bsky.social & presenting my own essay on Skidmore after Loper Bright. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For followers in the Twin Cities area, this upcoming @umnlawschool.bsky.social endowed lecture by @noahfeldman.bsky.social promises to be an interesting talk. Registration is open and the event is free to the public. Link and additional details are below.

Coming very, very soon -- 150+ pages of an all new Administrative Law Treatise chapter on statutory and regulatory interpretation after Loper Bright.

Must give credit where it's due. The new article cleared @ssrn.bsky.social review within 24 hours of posting. That doesn't always happy. Thank you, SSRN.

1/5 -- Just posted a new article @ssrn.bsky.social, Harmonizing Delegation & Deference After Loper Bright, forthcoming @nyulaw.bsky.social NYU Law Review, co-authored with Amy Wildermuth. Link here,🧵below. Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to be in Madison & @law.wisc.edu to present my study with @bridgetdooling.bsky.social -- Delay, Politics, & Expertise in OIRA Tax Review -- regarding OIRA review of tax regulations. Coming soon to @ssrn.bsky.social, abstract below.

Happy to boost the latest study of AI & the legal profession by my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @danielschwarcz.bsky.social, who has become a real expert on this topic. Now posted @ssrn.bsky.social, Dan's 🧵summarizing it is below along with a link to the paper.

Very excited to travel today to Columbus & The Ohio State Moritz College of Law to present a new draft article on OIRA review of tax regs, co-authored with @bridgetdooling.bsky.social, not quite ready for @ssrn.bsky.social but very timely thanks to a recent executive order.

Congratulations to my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague (and aspiring poet?) @jillhasday.bsky.social, whose new book is now available on Kindle!

For tax administration folks: OIRA review of tax regulations is back. I think this is a good thing, but I know that others will disagree. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ex...

Congratulations to my talented @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @jillhasday.bsky.social on the success of her forthcoming book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. www.amazon.com/Men-Forgetti...

Really enjoyed discussing Loper Bright & the future of judicial deference yesterday with Bill Eskridge (Yale) plus Erin Ryan, Mark Seidenfeld, & Brian Slocum (FSU). Many thanks to the FSU folks for inviting me. A recording is available here: vimeo.com/1052026041/0...

New from my fabulous @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @nicholasbednar.bsky.social, the total go-to guy for questions about federal civil service employment.

This from @orinkerr.bsky.social is so true! I like to remind students that Justice Kagan's fall 1L grades were a B & B-. She went on to earn As in almost all of her remaining classes & enjoy a spectacularly successful legal career. Add to that, grades do not determine your worth as a human being.

Very excited to be in sunny San Diego where I will present the results of my study (with @bridgetdooling.bsky.social) of OIRA review of tax regulations from 2016 through 2023. Many thanks to the USD Law tax folks for inviting me. taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog...

I concur! Happy holidays, everyone!

Congrats to my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @danielschwarcz.bsky.social, whose article Obamacare for Homeowners Insurance is #1 on the @ssrn.bsky.social contracts & commercial law list. Check it out at the link!

Congrats to my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague Allan Erbsen for receiving a coveted "timely & highly recommended" from @lsolum.bsky.social for his new article on recess appointments, congressional adjournment, & the Disagreement Clause. Read it while it's hot! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague Allan Erbsen has just recently posted a full law review article @ssrn.bsky.social on this topic as well. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @nicholasbednar.bsky.social is rapidly becoming an important go-to resource on the civil service, bureaucratic capacity, and administrative governance. Check out his recent @lawfare.bsky.social essay. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-pr...

New scholarship on ESG @ssrn.bsky.social from my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @rwpusa.bsky.social. Check it out!

Happy to promote new scholarship on AI posted by my @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @danielschwarcz.bsky.social and co-authors. Check it out at the link below!

Interesting presidential pardon analysis from my soon-to-be @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @sammerchant.bsky.social.

Welcome @amnaakbar.bsky.social to @umnlawschool.bsky.social! We're thrilled to have you join us!

LoL! So my profile pic for this site is terrible. I haven't had time to fix it. So Oscar the Grouch made the pic list and I didn't? I'm dying! 🤣

Really interested to read this amicus brief from @chrisjwalker.bsky.social & @michaelgkagan.bsky.social, since I'm working on my own take on Skidmore after Loper Bright.

Typical and unfortunate.

Highlighting new work that my wonderful @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @danielschwarcz.bsky.social recently posted on @ssrn.bsky.social. Check it out!

Always worth reading Tom Merrill. From the introduction alone, I concur with @jspeta.bsky.social that his HLR comment on Loper Bright is no exception. Looking forward to spending more time with it.

Posting here for the first time as I decide whether to migrate from the other place. Hoping my friends who see this will follow me and repost this so I can find my people. We'll see how it goes.