Administrative Law
Course Description
Syllabus
Exam Questions
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Syllabus: Administrative Law
Professor: Peter M. Shane

The required text is: Jerry L. Mashaw, Richard A. Merrill, and Peter M. Shane, Administrative Law: The American Public Law System (West 4th ed. 1998).
Class Topic

1 Introduction to Administrative Law

1-36
2 The Legislative Connection
Statutory Vagueness and its Antidotes
The "Non-Delegation" Doctrine

56-75
3 The Legislative Connection
Statutory Vagueness and its Antidotes
The "Non-Delegation" Doctrine

75-85
American Trucking Association
4 The Legislative Connection
Statutory Vagueness and its Antidotes
The "Non-Delegation" Doctrine

Clinton v New York
5 The "Legislative Veto"

85-107
6 Statutory Precision and its Consequences

120-147
7 Executive Supervision of Agency Action
Powers to Appoint and Remove Administrators

169-205
8 Congress' Power to Regulate the President's Relationship with Administrators

205-216
9 Congress' Power to Regulate the President's Relationship with Administrators (Independent Counsel)

216-242
10 Executive Authority to Direct Agency Policy
President's Power of Policy Initiation

242-252
11 Oversight of Regulatory Policy

252-285
12 Administrative Adjunction
Adjudicatory Due Process
Timing and Elements of Hearings

286-310
13 Administrative Adjunction
Adjudicatory Due Process
Timing and Elements of Hearings

310-323
14 Protected Interests
Demise of Rights/Privilege and the New Formalism

323-338
15 Protected Interests
Demise of Rights/Privilege and the New Formalism

338-349
16 Searching for "Property" and "Liberty"

349-355
17 Federal Statutory Hearing Rights
Finding a Hearing Right

355-369
18 Third-Party Hearing Rights
On-the-Record Adjudicatory Process

369-394
19 Formal Adjudication and Bureaucracy
General Concerns; Management

394-419
20 Rules to Control Adjudication
Rules to Avoid Adjudication
Informal Alternatives

419-438
21 Administrative Rulemaking
"Informal" Rulemaking
Judicial Review and Rulemaking Process
Agency Authority to Make Legislative Rules
Judicial Review of Legislative Rules Outside the APA Framework

439-452
462-465
22 Judicial Review of Legislative Rules Under the APA

465-488
23 Judicial Review of Legislative Rules Under the APA
Rulemaking Under 5 U.S.C. § 553

488-530
24 Hearings in Informal Rulemaking

530-540
25 Politics and Rationality in Rulemaking
Ex Parte Contacts in Rulemaking

540-559
26 Bias and Prejudgement

559-567
27 Making Administrative Policy Without Legislative Rules
Discretion to Adjudicate

567-584
28 Required Rulemaking

584-610
29 Suits to Review Administrative Action
Scope of Review
Overton Park

744-759
30 Interpretation of Law: Chevron

760-783
31 Fact Finding: "Substantial Evidence"

783-805
32 Scientific Judgment: The Interplay of Fact, Policy and Interpretation

805-832
33 The Availability of Judicial Review
Reviewability
Statutory Preclusion

832-850
34 Decisions "Committed to Agency Discretion" by Law

850-863
35 Review of Agency Inaction
Enforcement Discretion

863-889
36 Discretion to Regulate

889-901
37 Timing
Finality

901-918
38 Ripeness and Exhaustion

744-759
39 Standing
Searching for an Administrative Law "Cause of Action"
From "Legal Wrongs" and "Public Rights" to the "Zone of Interest"

950-970
40 The Constitutional Dimension
Injury

970-981
FEC v. Akins
41 Causation and Redressability

992-1017
42 Standing and the Public Interest in the Modern Administrative State

B 82-992
1017-1024