Overview
The new edition of this accessible and straightforward casebook focuses on the basic principles of administrative law, with a traditional cases-and-notes pedagogy, flexible organization, and new examination-length problems at the end of each substantive chapter.
This concise teaching tool offers:
- a chronological approach that shows the procedural course of administrative law in actual practice
- manageable, practical length of about 800 pages, presenting complete coverage in seven chapters
- a broad range of state cases, both classic and current
- flexible organization beginning with an overview of administrative law and its agencies to allow instructors to easily adapt the book to individual course needs
- balanced coverage that gives students valuable exposure to the state level where most administrative law issues are handled in practice, in addition to the standard treatment of federal law
- clear, accessible writing style that facilitates student learning
- excellent notes and explanatory material
- the original approach of the late Bernard Schwartz, fine-tuned and updated
Major changes for the Sixth Edition include:
- new co-author J. Robert Brown, Jr., who brings valuable expertise in securities and corporate law, including privacy issues and Sarbanes-Oxley
- full coverage of recent developments, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Act of 2002; the impact of 9/11 on rulemaking procedure (including the D.C. Circuit decision in Jifry v. FAA); privacy and administrative law, especially in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley; and updates on procedural due process, the distinction between legislative and nonlegislative rules, and Chevron deference
- an examination-length problem at the end of each substantive chapter, with model answers in the Teacher's Manual
- new and updated cases, including American Trucking Association v. Whitman, Mead Data Corporation, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Jifry v. FAA, and Mainstream Marketing Services v. FTC
- fully revised Teacher's Manual to aid in preparing for class
Synopsis
The new edition of this accessible and straightforward casebook focuses on the basic principles of administrative law, with a traditional cases-and-notes pedagogy, flexible organization, and new examination-length problems at the end of each substantive chapter.
This concise teaching tool offers:
• a chronological approach that shows the procedural course of administrative law in actual practice
• manageable, practical length of about 800 pages, presenting complete coverage in seven chapters
• a broad range of state cases, both classic and current
• flexible organization beginning with an overview of administrative law and its agencies to allow instructors to easily adapt the book to individual course needs
• balanced coverage that gives students valuable exposure to the state level where most administrative law issues are handled in practice, in addition to the standard treatment of federal law
• clear, accessible writing style that facilitates student learning
• excellent notes and explanatory material
• the original approach of the late Bernard Schwartz, fine-tuned and updated
Major changes for the Sixth Edition include:
• new co-author J. Robert Brown, Jr., who brings valuable expertise in securities and corporate law, including privacy issues and Sarbanes-Oxley
• full coverage of recent developments, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Act of 2002; the impact of 9/11 on rulemaking procedure (including the D.C. Circuit decision in Jifry v. FAA); privacy and administrative law, especially in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley; and updates onprocedural due process, the distinction between legislative and nonlegislative rules, and Chevron deference
• an examination-length problem at the end of each substantive chapter, with model answers in the Teacher¿s Manual
• new and updated cases, including American Trucking Association v. Whitman, Mead Data Corporation, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Jifry v. FAA, and Mainstream Marketing Services v. FTC
• fully revised Teacher¿s Manual to aid in preparing for class