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Format: HTML Label: Thomson Gale Manufacturer: Thomson Gale Number Of Pages: 82 Publication Date: January 01, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Release Date: February 20, 2007 Studio: Thomson Gale Editorial Review: Product Description: This digital document is an article from Yale Law Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 24440 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: In Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., the Supreme Court created a new framework for judicial deference to agency interpretations of law: courts should defer to an agency interpretation unless the relevant statute is clear or the agency interpretation is unreasonable. In the past two decades, however, the doctrinal Chevron framework has come under increasing strain. We suggest an alternative, which is to cast Chevron as a judicial voting rule, thereby institutionalizing deference to administrative agencies. Our thesis is that a voting rule of this sort would capture the benefits of the doctrinal version of Chevron while generating fewer costs. The principal advantage of institutionalizing Chevron as a voting rule is that it makes agency deference an aggregate property that arises from a set of votes, rather than an internal component of the decision rules used by individual judges. A voting-rule version of Chevron would also allow more precise calibration of the level of judicial deference over time, and holding the level of deference constant, a voting rule would produce less variance in deference across courts and over time, yielding a lower level of legal uncertainty than does the doctrinal version of Chevron. We consider and respond to various objections. Citation Details Title: Chevron as a voting rule. Author: Jacob E. Gersen Publication: Yale Law Journal (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 1, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 116 Issue: 4 Page: 676(56) Distributed by Thomson Gale |
