Administrative Law, Fifth Edition

For instructors who prefer a case-oriented approach, the Fifth Edition of Administrative Law is a case-rich text that focuses on the core issues in administrative law. Lightly-edited cases preserve the feel of reading entire opinions and include facts, content, full analyses, and citations. Keystone cases introduce important themes and topics. Introductory material and questions following the cases focus students’ reading and stimulate class discussion, while helpful notes facilitate keen understanding of legal doctrines, introduce students to academic responses to judicial decisions and agency practices, and identify recent developments in doctrine and academic study. “Theory Applied” sections at the conclusion of major parts offer teachers an opportunity to evaluate students’ grasp of the materials in new factual and legal contexts. This flexible, easily teachable text is designed for a 3-unit course, and its self-contained parts can be taught in any order.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Addition of important, recent U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions throughout
• Extended discussion of “informal” agency adjudication
• Updated discussion of the nondelegation doctrine and its possible future
• Recent developments in judicial review, including with Kisor and Chevron deference and standing

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Notes and discussion materials addressing contemporary issues in Administrative Law, including:
  • due process in the administrative setting
  • formalities of administrative rulemaking and adjudication
  • benefits and costs of agency adjudication and rulemaking
  • modification of agency interpretations and interpretive rulemaking
  • delegation of authority to agencies and private entities
  • political influence on agency policy
  • justiciability and judicial deference
• Lightly-edited cases, similar to reading entire opinions, including facts, content, full analyses, and citations
• Flexible, teachable text, designed for a 3-unit course with modular sections that allow for easy reshuffling of materials
• Helpful Notes crafted to enrich students’ understanding of legal doctrines, introduce important themes and topics, and identify possible future developments to theory and doctrine.
• “Theory Applied” problems and capstone cases that allow systemic review and integration of major concepts
• Up-to-Date content that includes coverage of important new developments in administrative practice, including recent Executive Orders that attempt to further centralize control of policy-making in the White House.
• Coverage of contemporary separation of powers problems and controversies affecting the administrative state, including comprehensive treatment of the Vacancies Reform Act.