Journal Articles
Commission Quorums (w/ Todd Phillips)
Working Paper
[SSRN]
Presidential Control and Administrative Capacity
Stanford Law Review 77: 823-923 (2025)
[Stanford Law Review] | [SSRN] | [Data Appendix]
Presidential Investment in the Administrative State (w/ David Lewis)
American Political Science Review 118: 442-457 (2024)
[American Political Science Review]
*Highlighted by: London School of Economics, Voters Rarely Care About ‘Good Governance’ Until it Affects Them Directly, Meaning That Most Federal Agencies Are Neglected by the White House [LSE]
Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Policymaking Capacity of United States Agencies, 1998-2021
Political Science Research & Methods 12: 652-665
[Political Science Research and Methods] | [SSRN]
The Public Administration of Justice
Cardozo Law Review 44: 2139-2232
[Here]
*Reviewed in: Eyal Lurie Pardes, The Adjudicatory Capacity to Make Decisions [The Regulatory Review]
Chevron‘s Inevitability
George Washington Law Review 85: 1392 (2017) (w/ Kristin Hickman)
[SSRN] | [Geo. Wash. L. Rev]
*Reviewed in: Adrian Vermeule, Chevron as a Legal Framework [JOTWELL]
The Clear-Statement Chevron Canon
DePaul Law Review 66: 819 (2017)
[SSRN] | [DePaul L. Rev]
Asylum’s Interpretative Impasse: Interpreting “Persecution” and “Particular Social Group” Using International Human Rights Law
Minnesota Journal of International Law 26: 145 (2017) (w/ Margaret Penland)
[SSRN] | [Minn. J. of Int’l L.]
Social Group Semantics: The Evidentiary Requirements of “Particularity” and “Social Distinction” in Pro Se Asylum Adjudications
Minnesota Law Review 100: 355 (2015)
[SSRN] | [Minn. L. Rev.]
*Award: Volume 35/36 Note and Comment Award
Invited Publications
Chevron On the Eve of Loper Bright
34 Widener Commonwealth Law Review 1 (2024)
[SSRN] | [Widener Commonwealth L. Rev.]
What To Do About Chevron – Nothing
72 Vanderbilt Law Review: En Banc 151 (2019)
[SSRN] | [Vand. L. Rev.]
*Invited Response to Barnett, Kent H.; Christina L. Boyd; and Christopher J. Walker. 2018. “Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics.” Vanderbilt Law Review 71: 1463.
Justifying Delay: Why Agencies Delay Compliance Dates and How They Do It
4 Journal of Regulatory Compliance 1 (2019)
[SSRN] | [J. of Regulatory Compliance]
*Symposium: What is the Role of a Regulation if it Is Not Enforced?
The Winter of Discontent: A Circumscribed Chevron
Mitchell Hamline Law Review 45: 395 (2019)
Deferring to the Rule of Law: A Comparative Look at United States Deference Doctrines
47 University of Memphis Law Review 1047 (2017) (w/ Barbara Marchevsky)
[SSRN] | [U. Memphis L. Rev.]
*Symposium: The Fragile Fortress: Judicial Independence in the 21st Century
Shorter Publications
Hiring Freezes and Job Offer Revocations
Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (Jan. 26, 2025)
[Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment]
President Trump and the Civil Service: Day 1
Lawfare (Jan. 23, 2025)
[Lawfare]
A Primer on the Civil Service and the Trump Administration
Lawfare (Dec. 3, 2024)
[Lawfare]
Chevron and Candor
Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (July 24, 2023)
[Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment]
Chevron‘s Latest Step
Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (July 3, 2022)
[Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment]
Chevron Critics and Clarity
The Public Lawyer 27:2 (Winter 2019)
Coping with Chevron: Justice Gorsuch’s Majority and Justice Breyer’s Dissent in SAS Institute
Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (Apr. 25, 2018)
[Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment]
DACA on the Docket
Minnesota Law Review: De Novo (Jan. 19, 2017)
[Minn. L. Rev. De Novo]
Defying Auer Deference
Minnesota Law Review: De Novo (June 24, 2015)
[Minn. L. Rev. De Novo]