How Law Professors Are Pivoting Post-Loper and Other Key Rulings

After the US Supreme Court upended the Chevron doctrine this summer, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor Daniel B. Rodriguez says the ruling will likely make the topic of judicial deference more interesting, not less, in his upcoming administrative law course.

The landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which ended the longstanding doctrine granting court deference to reasonable agency interpretations of vague laws, prompted questions and a scramble to adapt in offices of the US government and across universities.

Rodriguez, who is the former dean of Northwestern’s law school, said he’s still in the planning phases for ...