Administrative law

This treatise sets forth a comprehensive analysis of administrative law in the United States. Administrative law continues to evolve in interesting ways in all of its various dimensions. The authors address the new developments in the law of standing, congressional attempts to make agencies more accountable, and the continuing evolution of Chevron deference, among other issues. The fundamental purposes of this book are to assess and explain fundamental doctrines of administrative law, placing some of the most important aspects of those doctrines in a historical context, and setting forth the current state of the law. The book is intended to serve practitioners, scholars and students of administrative law.

The nondelegation doctrine -- Rulemaking -- Rulemaking and the rule of law -- The zone of rulemaking -- Allocation of judicial power -- Seventh Amendment and the agencies -- Due process -- Formal agency adjudication -- Informal agency processes and actions -- Rules and adjudications -- Consistency and the doctrine of res judicata and promissory estoppel -- The availability and timing of judicial review -- Judicial review of agency discretion -- Money damages -- Executive control of agency discretion -- Legislative control of agency discretion -- Citizens' access to governmentally held information -- The Privacy Act -- Government in the Sunshine Act -- Agency acquisition of information -- Statutory appendix.