ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

This course introduces the modern administrative and regulatory state. You will come to understand both the tremendous power exercised by administrative agencies and the significant constraints (legal and political) under which they operate. You will learn to identify the design features that might make an agency constitutionally problematic, the factors that make one type of decision more appropriate than another, the prerogatives and limits of agencies in interpreting the statutes as they are charged with the administering, and agencies? prerogatives and limits in adjucating facts and exercising policymaking discretion. You will also learn to identify the factors that affect the availability and timing of judicial review agency.