Administrative Law: Cases and Materials

With this new edition, Administrative Law, Cases and Materials, continues to present the complex substance of administrative law in a format that is both intellectually satisfying andeasily understandable. Prior to publication the book was used at the University of Minnesota where the students found administrative law to be both an exciting and rewarding endeavor.

In addition to carefully examining current law, students will become familiar with the relevanthistorical perspectives so necessary to appreciate the dynamics of todays law. They will becomefamiliar with the so-called progressive movement and its regulatory offspring, the independentagency, with the New Deal regulatory agenda, with the post-World War II consensus embodyingthe Administrative Procedure Act, with the problem of capture, with aggressive modes ofjudicial review in response, with the problem ossification of rule-making, and with an array ofjudicial reinterpretations of settled precedents. This focus on doctrinal coherence and historicalbackground provides a rich intellectual experience. This new Second Edition also:

• Includes new cases through 2010 Term of the Supreme Court, including Free EnterpriseFund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the latest separation-of-powersdecision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and last year's FCC v. Fox Telev. Stations, Inc.,gloss on hard-look judicial review

• Focuses upon the relationships among various administrative law doctrines, such as therelation between the substantial-evidence and arbitrary-and-capricious review standardsand the relations between those review standards and the Chevron/Skidmore deferencestandards

• Examines split-enforcement agencies such as OSHA establishes as well as analogousstructures in the benefit agencies in addition to omnipresent unitary regulatory agency