Administrative Law

Description

Hallmark features of this title

A clear, comprehensive overview of administrative law

• Connections are made between government agencies and the legal framework they operate under. Topics include agency discretion, due process, rulemaking power, agency adjudications and judicial review.
• Many illustrations, graphs and figures, including conceptual mapping diagrams and data charts, help students conceptualize subjects under discussion.

Focus on critical thinking and case analysis

• Carefully selected case excerpts illustrate ideas discussed throughout the text, while building students’ awareness of the complexity of real-world cases.
• Review questions and problems at the close of each chapter test readers’ retention of chapter content and given them practice applying new knowledge.

For courses in administrative law.

A plain-language survey of the laws governing administrative agencies
Administrative Law: Bureaucracy in a Democracy examines administrative law in the context of accountability and preventing governmental abuse of power. With thorough, yet accessible coverage, it looks at the authorities held by administrative agencies, how agencies are kept accountable, and the existing and potential constraints on agency authority, both constitutional and otherwise. In analyzing case excerpts, students learn to think critically about the issues and controversies of administrative law, while gaining practical insight they can apply as professionals. The 7th edition includes new laws and cases, and addresses contemporary challenges confronting the administrative state.

About our author

Daniel E. Hall, a native of Indiana, earned his bachelor’s degree at Indiana University, Juris Doctor at Washburn University and Doctor of Education (higher education curriculum and instruction) at the University of Central Florida. Before joining the academy full time, he practiced law in both the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), where he clerked for the Supreme Court of the FSM and served as Assistant Attorney General of the FSM. He also clerked for Gene E. Brooks, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, and interned for Congressman Frank McCloskey and Robert Katzmann, JD, PhD, at the Brookings Institution.

Subsequent to leaving law practice, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the University of Central Florida, the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Toledo, and the Department of Justice and Community Studies, Political Science and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University.

Dr. Hall is also a visiting professor of law at Sun Yat-sen University in China and has taught as an adjunct instructor at the University of Evansville, College of Micronesia, and Barry University School of Law. He is the author or coauthor of 23 textbooks (first and subsequent editions), and more than a dozen journal articles on public law and related subjects. Daniel’s greatest joy is being father to Grace and Eva, partner to Aryana, and future stepfather to Thea.

New and updated features of this title

Updates to legal content

• UPDATED: The law has been updated through early 2018, including with the addition of the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 and changes to rulemaking and adjudications.
• UPDATED: The discussion of presidential control of agencies has been updated to reflect the first year of President Trump’s administration. It covers topics such as the authority of the president to fire officers, newly issued executive orders, and attempts to control the size of the bureaucracy.

Strategic learning aids

• EXPANDED: New and updated data throughout the text gives students new criteria with which to analyze concepts.
• EXPANDED: New and updated sidebars have been added to pique student interest in chapter topics, for example, presidential liabilities in Chapter 11.
• NEW: Several new cases have been added, including Matthews v. Eldridge, Arizona v. Tribal, Lucia v. SEC, and Susan B. Anthony v. Driehaus.

1. Introduction
2. Bureaucracy and Democracy
3. Agency Discretion
4. The Requirement of Fairness
5. Delegation
6. Agency Rulemaking
7. Agency Information Collection and Investigations
8. Formal Adjudications
9. Accountability Through Reviewability
10. Accountability Through Accessibility
11. Accountability Through Liability

Appendix A: Constitution of the United States of America
Appendix B: Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. §551 et seq.) Excerpts
Appendix C: Selected Executive Orders
Appendix D: Researching Administrative Law Issues

For courses in administrative law.

A plain-language survey of the laws governing administrative agencies
Administrative Law: Bureaucracy in a Democracy examines administrative law in the context of accountability and preventing governmental abuse of power. With thorough, yet accessible coverage, it looks at the authorities held by administrative agencies, how agencies are kept accountable, and the existing and potential constraints on agency authority, both constitutional and otherwise. In analyzing case excerpts, students learn to think critically about the issues and controversies of administrative law, while gaining practical insight they can apply as professionals. The 7th edition includes new laws and cases, and addresses contemporary challenges confronting the administrative state.