@adamgcrews.bsky.social argues that courts can adapt to agency use of AI by looking to agency practice, rather than through judicial creativity and policy balancing.
www.yalejreg.com/nc/agencies-...
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“If President Trump wins, can the Court craft a rule that does not result in political control over U.S. monetary policy...?”
Legal Issues to Watch in 2026 continues w. #RutgersLaw Asst. Prof. @adamgcrews.bsky.social on a Supreme Court case with major constitutional stakes: https://bit.ly/4svGZXC
Very excited to be teaching Federal Courts for the first time today.
Much less excited to be doing it while recovering from an emergency appendectomy.
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Congratulations to #RutgersLaw faculty honored at today's AALS Award Ceremony:
@professormutch.bsky.social - 2026 Deborah L. Rhode Award
Asst. Prof. @adamgcrews.bsky.social - Section on Administrative Law Emerging Scholars Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication
🔗 Details: bit.ly/4qfsZjo
Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Murguia said in a statement that Ikuta “exemplified a tireless dedication to the rule of law, to collegiality, and to excellence in public service.”
https://loom.ly/6rKhMNg
Having way too much fun writing my Admin supplement for next semester.
For @scotusblog.com, I cover an arcane post-CASA question: Does a class action plaintiff with an inherently transitory claim need to file a protective motion for class certification to invoke the mootness exception for class actions, or is the complaint enough?
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/stat...
I wrote this article primarily from a roach infested coffee shop in Wilmington, DE, while waiting for my boyfriend to get home from his real job.
He now insists that all future articles should likewise be written there, on the theory that the roaches were my good luck charm.
I’m very honored to have been selected to receive the AALS Administrative Law section’s Emerging Scholar Award for my @stanlrev.bsky.social article “Visions of Vermont Yankee.”
Lisbon restaurant recs:
100maneiras.com/contactos/
restauranteclubedejornalistas.com#carta
New from me: Is administrative common law something that we can find in customary agency practices?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Vermont Yankee is re-emerging as a cornerstone of administrative law. In this Stanford Law Review article, #RutgersLaw Professor @adamgcrews.bsky.social explores how courts are invoking it to limit judicial overreach, revive legislative primacy... (1/2)
Re: Consumers’ Research. (I get it, no one cares!)
The Article III problem in the case was a serious one because this legal issue does not “evade review” if petitioners use the right procedural vehicles to mount their challenge. (See below.)
The Court’s resolution is more ipse dixit than analysis.
And if I keep making typos like this, it will also be my last 🙃
I had a baby law prof milestone today: With thanks to Judge Readler of the Sixth Circuit, I got my first judicial citation.
This is all the more existing because the prevailing party was represented by my friend and former co-clerk Matt Rice.
A fun thing about being an absent-minded administrative law professor is that I have a note to myself from 2023 that reads “15 cfr 744 supp 5,” and I look at it every few months and never have the slightest clue what I was hoping to remind myself to do with that.
In a rush to criticize an entity that shits all over civil servants (DOGE), this framing ends up … shitting all over a civil servant who made an honest error.
John Roberts isn’t at his keyboard hitting “send” on this stuff himself.
The Trump/Elon thing is for Pride, right? Because it’s so camp? Like, this has to be being done just for the gays?
My latest article, Visions of Vermont Yankee, is now in print.
review.law.stanford.edu/print/articl...
I’m so glad that someone appreciated the TSwift reference!
Heading to my favorite city (DC) to do my favorite thing (complain about the 1970s DC Circuit).
Got called for jury duty and was very predictably cut for being a law professor (because heaven forbid someone know what he’s talking about!!!), but I would like to send all my best wishes to the plaintiff, who was very, very hot.
My most right-wing take is that we should impose the death penalty on PATCO riders who aren’t smart enough to allow two lanes of foot traffic into and out of the station.
I wonder if this is the type of stupid gimmick that the Founders might have deemed sufficient cause to refuse to seat Wisconsin’s congressional delegation, on the ground that Wisconsin no longer has a republican form of government.
Me, teaching Admin this semester: “Damn I wish stuff would slow down for, like, a day so I can keep on track with my syllabus.”
Me, having just been assigned Fed Courts for next year: “Damn this would be such a fun and exciting time to be teaching this class!!!”
I forgot how much more fun it is to people watch at a bar in LA than in Philly.
Had to break the hard news to the boyfriend that the article I’ve been working on forever is actually my longest relationship.
Excited to share my latest manuscript, Ghostwriting the Government, on SSRN (comments welcome!): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵:
My take on the FCC v. Consumers’ Research argument:
“If I were the government, I would feel pretty good right now,” Adam Crews, a law professor at Rutgers who represented the FCC during previous proceedings, told CNET.
www.cnet.com/home/interne...
Happy FCC v. Consumers’ Research day!
This is a hugely important separation of powers case—both on the merits and in the sense that it doesn’t belong in an Article III court at all.
