Administrative agencies are a constitutionally marginal fourth branch of government upon which has been conferred broad regulatory powers, including, inter alia, the power to make rules having the force of law, to adjudicate, to give tremendous wealth to private parties through licensing decisions,…
2013 Class 25 - Surveys FOIA and access to agency deliberations.
Class 24 - Continues an exploration of enforcement, especially prosecution and selective enforcement.
Class 23 - Begins an exploration of enforcement, including administrative inspections and compulsory production of information.
Class 22 - Continues an examination of procedural due process.
Class 21 - Introduces procedural due process via the Goldberg and Roth cases.
Class 20 - Explores hybrid forms of rulemaking procedure, and exemptions to section 553's notice and comment requirements.
Class 19 - Continues the exploration of informal rulemaking procedures, including some arguably judicially crafted procedural requirements.
Class 18 - Introduces the procedures required for informal rulemaking.
Class 17 - Policymaking by order, and by manual.
Class 16 - Agency authority to make policy by rule.
Class 15 - Finishes standing and considers timing of review.
Class 14 - Finishes reviewability and starts standing.
Class 13 - Continues exploration of availability of judicial review; continues statutory preclusion and includes committed to agency discretion by law.
Class 12 - Introduces topic of availability of judicial review; considers agency action and statutory preclusion of review.
Class 11 - Explores substantial evidence review of questions of fact or policy.
Class 10 - Concludes judicial review of questions of law.
Class 8 - Concludes introduction to judicial review and explores review for arbitrariness.
Class 9 - Begins an exploration of judicial review of questions of law.
Class 7 - Introduces the topic of judicial review of agency action.
Class - 6 Finishes a discussion of executive control of agencies, and discusses Congress' authority to delegate adjudicative power to agencies.
Class - 5 Continues an examination of executive control, including cases concerning removal of officers.
Class - 4 Finishes a discussion of legislative control, focusing on the line item veto, and begins an examination of the appointment power (executive control of agencies).
This meeting continues an exploration of the distribution of administrative power, addressing the legislative veto.
This meeting begins an exploration of the distribution of administrative power, focusing primarily on non delegation doctrine.
Introduction to the topic of Administrative Law & Policy.