Some personal news: After a decade working on @OSU_Law faculty and living in Columbus, this summer we'll be moving a few hours north, where I'll join @UMichLaw faculty.
A quick 🧵 reflecting on how Ohio State has been such an amazing professional home over the last ten years: My OSU colleagues have been amazing -- so many generous faculty mentors and collaborators, two supportive deans, and a top-rate staff, including my assistant (& dear friend) who has worked w/me all ten years. They all helped me become the teacher, scholar, and person I am today.

Glad to see @BrianneGorod & her @MyConstitution appellate shop file this amicus brief on behalf of @jdmortenson in the #SCOTUS WV v. EPA case: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/2… I hope the Court engages more with the historical/originalist scholarship against the nondelegation debate, including work by @jdmortenson, @nicholas_bagley, Nick Parrillo, @KexelChabot, etc.

I'm very excited to serve as one of the academic consultants on this new @acusgov, and even more excited to collaborate with two of my prior coauthors @MelissaWasserma and @acusgov Executive Director Matt Wiener to coauthor this study and report. 👇 This new @acusgov study builds on @MelissaWasserma & my @CalifLRev article The New World of Agency Adjudication, which explored the centrality of agency head review in the standard federal model for agency adjudication: ssrn.com/abstract=31295…

I am heartbroken to hear about the passing over the weekend of my good friend, mentor, and colleague in the field @UNLCollegeofLaw Professor Anna Shavers (@LawProfShavers): news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…
A quick 🧵 with some reflections on her life and its impact on mine: I first got to know Anna well when I joined the governing council of the @ABAAdLaw Section in 2015, and she had just completed her one-year term as Section Chair. I had met Anna before that, and her passion for #adlaw and #immigrationlaw was infectious.

Last week I did a 🧵 on Congress's anti-removal power w/r/t how Congress could strengthen independence of the proposed Office of State Democracy Promotion in Dems' Freedom to Vote Act:

https://twitter.com/chris_j_walker/status/1476592671753916419

. Tonight I'll turn to one of my favorite contexts: agency adjudication. First some background: There is a growing concern in administrative law circles, and especially among administrative law judges and other agency adjudicators, that federal courts will continue to erode the decisional independence of agency adjudicators.

A 🧵 on Congress's anti-removal power: The Dems' Freedom to Vote Act would create a new independent agency, the Office of State Democracy Promotion, which would provide $$ to States to "carry out democracy promotion activities." congress.gov/bill/117th-con… Understandably after the #SCOTUS Seila Law and Collins decisions, the current version of the bill does *not* restrict the President's ability to remove at will the single-head director of this new agency (congress.gov/bill/117th-con…):

I was so saddened to hear this morning that my good friend and fellow #adlaw nerd @UConnLaw Prof. Richard Parker passed away unexpectedly last week. today.uconn.edu/2021/10/in-mem… Richard and I served together over the last few years on the @ABAAdLaw governing council, and he just completed his term as one of our two Section Delegates to the @ABAesq House of Delegates.

This is heartbreaking news. In law school, Professor Rhode was one of my main mentors and has been ever since. She helped me become a law professor, and researching and coauthoring together shaped my approach as an academic today.

https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU/status/1347965374482972673

Prof. Rhode's scholarship emphasized the importance of doctrine and theory -- but also empirical reality and policy impact. She wanted to show how the law worked on the ground and how law and the legal profession could be used (and improved) to make the world a better place.

Earlier this week the Justice Department released a report focused on how to modernize the Administrative Procedure Act (APA): yalejreg.com/nc/new-justice… Like most of the legislative #adlaw reform proposals in recent years, DOJ's reform efforts largely focus on agency rulemaking. (FWIW, I've written more about the various legislative proposals, in an @AdLawReview essay by the same title as the DOJ report: ssrn.com/abstract=29621….)

Today I found out one of my former students passed away earlier this month. We're probably not supposed to have favorite students, but she was one of my favs -- in part because I saw her grow so much from one semester to the next in a way that inspired me to be a better teacher. I first met Kierra in my 1L legislation and regulation course. She was one of the quieter students in her first-year section. I'm not sure she ever volunteered to speak in class (though I nudged her to participate), but she was always there and engaged -- and smiling.

If you've never attended a naturalization ceremony before, you should. Some thoughts on my experience in Dayton yesterday. THREAD: A month ago I received an invitation to speak at a naturalization ceremony in Dayton, Ohio (and I’m so grateful my teaching schedule would permit it).