Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context

by Robert L. Glicksman, Richard Levy

The third edition of this innovative administrative law casebook retains and enhances its unique
Focus on five representative agencies to provide students with a more holistic understanding of agencies and provide context.Use of a consistent unit design that maximizes student learning and facilitates the use of the book with a wide variety of teaching styles, including traditional methods and the “flipped” classroom.Incorporation of cutting-edge cases and problems that focus on the practical application of administrative law doctrines.
By focusing on five important and representative agencies (the EPA, NLRB, SSA, IRS, and FCC), the book addresses two key problems for teaching and learning administrative (1) students’ lack of familiarity with agencies and what they do; and (2) the difficulty of understanding new and different agencies and their organic statutes for each new administrative law case. Extended treatment of these five agencies, including one chapter for each agency that focuses on its use of a particular kind of agency action (rulemaking, policymaking adjudication, mass adjudication, informal action, and enforcement) provides students with a more complete picture of what agencies do and how they do it. Because t(more...)

1407 pages, Hardcover

First published April 9, 2010

About the author

Robert Glicksman is the J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on environmental, natural resources, and administrative law. He has published numerous books, either alone or with various co-authors, including Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional Framework (NYU Press 2019), Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (5th ed. West Academic 2019), Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (8th ed. Wolters Kluwer 2019), Stay Ahead of the Pack: Your Comprehensive Guide to the Upper Level Curriculum (West Academic 2018), Developing Professional Skills: Environmental Law (West Academic 2016), Statutory Analysis in the Regulatory State (Foundation Press 2014), Next Generation Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (ELI Press 2014), Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply: The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement (Stanford Economics & Finance 2011), Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring a Pragmatic Approach (Stanford Law & Politics 2003), and Public Natural Resources Law (2d ed., Thomson Reuters 2007, updated three times annually). The third edition of Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (Foundation Press) is forthcoming in 2020. Professor Glicksman has also written numerous book chapters and has published articles in top general and specialty law journals on topics that include regulatory design, environmental enforcement, environmental federalism, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and federal land management (especially by the multiple use agencies. Professor Glicksman has presented papers in Australia, England, France, New Zealand, Scotland, and Spain. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Trento (Italy), Georgetown University Law Center, Lewis & Clark Law School, the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, and the University of Miami School of Law. He is also a Member-Scholar and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Progressive Reform.

Reviews

[Grace Kendrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Counting this one too. Actually a good textbook, very to the point.