Christine Chabot

Professor Chabot’s constitutional and administrative law scholarship focuses on agency and judicial independence, separation of powers, and the history of the administrative state. She has written a series of articles challenging historical and originalist arguments for a unitary executive president, and her work has been published in leading journals including the Virginia Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Connecticut Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, the Utah Law Review, and the Administrative Law Review. Professor Chabot's research has also been cited by the United States Supreme Court and featured in media such as The New York Times, Bloomberg Law, CNN, the ABA Journal, The Atlantic, and The Economist. She is an editor for the Journal of American Constitutional History and serves on the Executive Committee, American Association of Law Schools Section for Administrative Law. 

At Marquette, Professor Chabot has taught Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legislation, an originalism seminar entitled "Litigating the Lessons of History," and Sales. Before coming to Marquette, she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and served as Associate Director for Regulation at Loyola’s Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies. Professor Chabot also clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jane R. Roth and practiced at national law firms. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the Notre Dame Law School and holds a B.A. from Northwestern University.

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Recent and forthcoming publications:

Rejecting the Unitary Executive, Utah L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)

Trump v. United States and the Half-Originalist Presidency, Mich. J. L. Reform (forthcoming 2025)

The Founders’ Purse, 110 Virginia L. Rev. 1027 (2024) [SSRN]

The President’s Approval Power, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 373 (2023) [SSRN]

Interring the Unitary Executive, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 129 (2022) [SSRN]

The Lost History of Delegation at the Founding, 56 Georgia L. Rev. 81 (2021) [SSRN]

Is the Federal Reserve Constitutional? An Originalist Argument for Independent Agencies, 96 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (2020) [SSRN]

The Science of Administrative Change, 52 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2020) (with Barry Sullivan) [SSRN]

Do Justices Time Their Retirements Politically? An Empirical Analysis of the Timing and Outcomes of Supreme Court Retirements in the Modern Era, 2019 Utah L. Rev. 527 [SSRN]

Selling Chevron, 67 Admin. L. Rev. 481 (2015) [SSRN]