Chevron On Trial: The Supreme Court and the Future of Agency Authority and Expertise

On Friday, October 20, 2023, the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State and the George Mason Law Review hosted a full-day symposium on the future of Chevron Deference. 

The event featured a keynote address by

Paul J. Ray, Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation and former Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Followed by his fireside chat with Professor Jennifer Mascott (formerly of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel)

Podcast version of the keynote address and fireside chat

Panel 1: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

9:00–10:15 am

• Kent Barnett, J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
• Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor, Columbia Law School
• Christopher J. Walker, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
• Moderator: The Honorable Paul B. Matey, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Podcast version of the discussion

Panel 2: Is Chevron Inevitable? What Should Replace It?

10:25–11:40 am

• Lisa Schultz Bressman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• John F. Duffy, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
• Daniel E. Walters, Associate Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law
• Moderator: The Honorable David J. Porter, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Podcast version of the discussion

Panel 3: Who Interprets Statutes?

1:20–2:35 pm

• Aditya Bamzai, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
• Jonathan S. Masur, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
• Eli Nachmany, Former Law Clerk, Judge Steven J. Menashi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Victoria F. Nourse, Ralph V. Whitworth Professor in Law, Georgetown Law
• Moderator: The Honorable Chad A. Readler, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Podcast version of the discussion

Panel 4: The Future of Deference and Environmental Law

2:45–4:00 pm

• Caroline Cecot, Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
• E. Donald Elliott, Adjunct Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
• Emily Hammond, Glen Earl Weston Research Professor, George Washington University Law School
• Moderator: The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Podcast version of the discussion

Additional essays by:

Adrian Vermeule, Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School

Philip Hamburger, Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Full conference live stream: