# overview
Daniel E. Walters is an Associate Professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law. Before joining Texas A&M Law's faculty, he was an Assistant Professor at Penn State Law, a Regulation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and a law clerk to the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His primary areas of research and teaching are administrative law, energy and environmental regulation, and bureaucratic politics. His work, which often crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and incorporates empirical inquiry, has been published in top journals, including the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Columbia Law Review.  Professor Walters is a former winner of the American Constitution Society's Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition in Administrative and Regulatory Law and the Beryl Radin Award for outstanding contribution to the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory. He serves as a Council Member on the ABA Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the Section's quarterly magazine, Administrative & Regulatory Law News. Professor Walters holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

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Foreign Law; Jurisprudence; Judicial Politics; Empirical Legal Studies

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Inc. V. Natural Resources Defense Council

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Judicial Politics; Judicial Nominations; Blue Slips; Senate Judiciary Committee; Filibuster

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Self-regulation in Emerging and Innovative Industries

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The Great Unsettling: Administrative Governance After Loper Bright

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The Major Questions Doctrine at the Boundaries of Interpretive Law

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Upending a Global Debate: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's Use of Transnational Law to Interpret Domestic Doctrine

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The Environmental Democracy That Was, Then Wasn't, but Could Be Again

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University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs

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Whither the Regulatory 'War on Coal'? Scapegoats, Saviors, and Stock Market Reactions

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University of California Berkeley School of Law

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Grid Governance in the Energy Trilemma Era: Remedying the Democracy Deficit

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The Self-Delegation False Alarm: Analyzing Auer Deference's Effect on Agency Rules

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The Justiciability of Fair Balance under the Federal Advisory Committee Act: Toward a Deliberative Process Approach

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Reclaiming Regulatory Intermediation for the Public

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Litigating EPA Rules: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Environmental Rulemaking in the Courts

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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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A New Era of Deference: From Chevron to Loper Bright

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Animal Agriculture Liability for Climatic Nuisance: A Path Forward for Climate Change Litigation?

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IF WE BUILD IT, WILL THEY LEGISLATE? EMPIRICALLY TESTING THE POTENTIAL OF THE NONDELEGATION DOCTRINE TO CURB CONGRESSIONAL "ABDICATION"

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Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory State: Theory and Evidence

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Ideology, Qualifications, and Covert Senate Obstruction of Federal Court Nominations

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Lumpy Social Goods in Energy Decarbonization: Why We Need More Than Just Markets for the Clean Energy Transition

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The Judicial Role in Constraining Presidential Nonenforcement Discretion: The Virtues of an APA Approach

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Decoding Nondelegation After Gundy: What the Experience in State Courts Tells Us About What to Expect When Were Expecting

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Capturing Regulatory Agendas? An Empirical Study of Industry Use of Rulemaking Petitions

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The Administrative Agon: A Democratic Theory for a Conflictual Regulatory State

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Will Loper Bright Spur a Congressional Renaissance?

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Planning for Excellence: Insights from an International Review of Regulators' Strategic Plans

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Administrative Law: A Public Casebook for the American Public Law System (2nd Edition)