Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context

by Robert L. Glicksman, Richard E. Levy

This casebook focuses on five representative agencies to provide students with a more holistic understanding of the structure and functions of agencies, to illustrate the kinds of actions agencies take to implement their statutory mandates, and to provide context for examining the legal constraints on those actions. Two key problems for teaching and learning administrative law are (1) students’ lack of familiarity with agencies, what they do, and their role in the tri-partite system of government established by the Constitution; and (2) the need to understand new and different agencies and figure out their organic statutes for each new administrative law case. Other key features of the book By focusing on five important and representative agencies (the EPA, NLRB, SSA, IRS, and FCC), the book addresses both problems. Extended treatment of these agencies, including one chapter each that uses the agency to present the legal issues surrounding a particular kind of agency action (e.g., EPA to illustrate administrative law issues concerning rulemaking, the NLRB to illustrate the issues arising from agency efforts to make policy through adjudication), provides students with a clearer sense of how agencies are structured, what they do, and how they do it. In addition, our book provides an efficient mechanism for teaching and learning about administrative because the principal cases used to illustrate administrative law doctrine and present administrative law issues involve the same five agencies, the need to learn about new agencies and understand new organic statutes is greatly reduced, enabling students and teachers to focus on the administrative law issues in the cases.

1189 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.