Administrative Law
LAW 683 | 3 Hours
This course is the Civil Procedure of the federal administrative state. Focusing primarily upon federal law and federal agencies, the course introduces students to the processes of law making and law application by the administrative agencies of the executive branch, in addition to subsequent judicial review of agency action by the Article III courts. The course covers the basic tools used by agencies to enforce their organic acts, which include rulemaking and adjudication, as well as the procedural and substantive rules that limit and guide federal agencies’ use of these tools. Among topics that this course typically will cover are procedural due process, the separation of powers and the place of federal administrative agencies within the three branches of the federal government, the Administrative Procedure Act, the scope of judicial review, access to judicial review, freedom of information, and principles of open government.