Harrington and Carter know that bureaucratic government is no cure for the shortcomings of free enterprise, yet understand that government oversight and regulation is crucial to keeping power within democratic boundaries. For students who will soon embark on jobs in government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations, this proven casebook will help lay a foundation of knowledge for effective decision making and critical evaluation of ethics in the rule of law. At its heart, the book aims to alert students to the tremendous scope and power of administrative government and to how the legal system shapes administrative procedure and practice.
Now in its fourth edition, Administrative Law and Politics continues to balance case excerpts and commentary, and has been thoroughly updated to account for recent developments, such as:
- the centralization of executive powers
- the impact of privatization on administrative accountability
- the public’s interest when government services and provisions are outsourced
- the expansion of investigatory powers under FISA and the legal challenge brought by the ACLU
- the range of legal procedures that are commonly found in administrative practices, such as university sexual harassment procedures
- the conflicts of interest when policy regarding future administrative rules is not open and transparent, as in the case of Cheney v. District Court for the District of Columbia
New cases include Kelo v. City of New London, FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., United States v. Mead Corporation, Dow Chemical Company v. United States, and Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. Updated end-of-chapter exercises and questions encourage students to consider the majority and dissenting opinions in recent and highly controversial cases such as Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Gratz v. Bollinger.
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Now in its fourth edition,
Administrative Law and Politics continues to balance case excerpts and commentary, and has been thoroughly updated to account for recent developments, such as:
- the centralization of executive powers
- the impact of privatization on administrative accountability
- the public’s interest when government services and provisions are outsourced
- the expansion of investigatory powers under FISA and the legal challenge brought by the ACLU
- the range of legal procedures that are commonly found in administrative practices, such as university sexual harassment procedures
- the conflicts of interest when policy regarding future administrative rules is not open and transparent, as in the case of Cheney v. District Court for the District of Columbia
New cases include Kelo v. City of New London, FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., United States v. Mead Corporation, Dow Chemical Company v. United States, and Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. Updated end-of-chapter exercises and questions encourage students to consider the majority and dissenting opinions in recent and highly controversial cases such as Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Gratz v. Bollinger.
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Table of Contents
Come back soon for the full table of contents and case list!
Part I. THE RULE OF LAW IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
1. Why Administrative Law?
2. The Origins and Meaning of Administrative Law
Part II. ELEMENTS OF MODERN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
3. The Constitutional Authority of Agencies
4. The Statutory Authority of Agencies
5. Information and Administration
6. Informality and Formality in Administrative Law
7. Elements of an Administrative Hearing
8. Ambiguities in Rulemaking Procedures
9. Enforcement of Administrative Policy
10. Judicial Review
Part III. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
11. Liability
12. Licensing
13. The Law of Public Employment
Part IV. EVALUATING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
14. Principles and Politics of Administrative Law
Testimonials
"Administrative Law and Politics is an engaging, clear, and teachable book. It makes administrative law accessible, and this is not an easy task; its structure and organization make great sense because it first provides students with the essentials for understanding this area of the law. This book provides teachers with a variety of ways of reaching students, and it makes a very complex area of the law teachable, accessible and, in so doing, shows why administrative law is so crucial to everyday political life in the United States."
- Alfred C. Aman, Jr., Dean and Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
Bio(s)
Christine B. Harrington, New York University
Christine B. Harrington is professor of politics at New York University; she is also affiliated with the Institute for Law and Society and New York University School of Law. She is the author of
Shadow Justice: The Ideology and Institutionalization of Alternatives to Court and editor of
Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression (with Maureen Cain) and
The Presidency in American Politics (with Paul Brace and Gary King). Her publications have appeared in
Social and Legal Studies, Law and Policy, Law and Society Review, and
Journal of Law and Policy, among others. She received the APSA Law and Courts Section’s Teaching and Mentoring Award in 2004, and she is co-founder and chair of the Consortium on Graduate Law and Society Programs.
Lief H. Carter, Colorado College
Lief H. Carter served as Colorado College’s McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership from 1995 to 2004. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1973 to 1995. He is the author of
Reason in Law, Seventh Edition and has published major texts in constitutional law, legal reasoning, and administrative law. He was the first faculty member at the University of Georgia to receive the top award for teaching intwo different years, and he has won national awards and recognition from the American Political Science Association.
