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Readings and Course Outline

This document provides the reading assignments and course outline for an Administrative Law class spanning January to March. It lists the topics to be covered each week such as the Administrative Procedure Act, the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, electronic rulemaking, negotiated rulemaking, agency adjudications, and judicial review. Students are directed to complete readings from casebooks, websites, and articles before each class and assignments are due on specified dates.

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Readings and Course Outline

This document provides the reading assignments and course outline for an Administrative Law class spanning January to March. It lists the topics to be covered each week such as the Administrative Procedure Act, the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, electronic rulemaking, negotiated rulemaking, agency adjudications, and judicial review. Students are directed to complete readings from casebooks, websites, and articles before each class and assignments are due on specified dates.

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Administrative Law Research

Readings and Course Outline


Spring 2008

Before each class session, you should read the assignment listed for that day.

Mon, Jan 21 The Basics of Administrative Law Research


Casebook, chapter 1

Tues, Jan 22 The Administrative Procedure Act


CALI lesson: Basic Structure of the Federal Administrative
Procedure Act
Casebook, pp. 1321-1344 & 1354-1369

Mon, Jan 28 Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations


Read A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of
Federal Regulations.
Look at structure of 12 CFR §§ 226.1-Supp.1, approx. 250 pages.
Read Part 226, beginning of Part 226 through §226.5, and App. H.
Look at 46 Fed Reg 20892 on Lexis or Westlaw and compare text
of §226.1(a-c) from 1981 with your recent CFR version of same §.
Meet in the Reading Room for class.

Tues, Jan 29 FR & CFR, continues


GPOAccess, Lexis, Westlaw
Read Westlaw booklet: “How to Find Regulations”
Go through the GPOAccess web sites for FR & CFR

Mon, Feb 4 Updating Regulations

Tues, Feb 5 Electronic Rulemaking


Read through the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative web site

Mon, Feb 11 E-Rulemaking, continues


Read “Evaluating E-Rulemaking: Public Participation and Political
Institutions,” by S. Benjamin. 55 Duke L.J. 893 (2006).
FR & CFR assignment due

Tues, Feb 12 Negotiated Rulemaking


Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990, 5 U.S.C. §§ 561-570 and
Assessing the Assessors: The Actual Performance of Negotiated
Rulemaking, 9 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 32 (2001).
Mon, Feb 18 The Unified Agenda
http://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/ua/
Current Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Regulatory
and Deregulatory Actions
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain
Electronic Rulemaking assignment due

Tues, Feb 19 Agency Adjudications


“Blackletter Statement of Federal Administrative Law,” Part I.
Adjudication. 54 Administrative Law Review 18-30 (2002).
Available on HeinOnline.

Mon, Feb 25 Judicial Review of Agency Adjudications


“Blackletter Statement of Federal Administrative Law,” Part Three,
Scope of Judicial Review, and Part Four, Availability of Judicial
Review. 54 Administrative Law Review 36-59 (2002).
Available on HeinOnline.
Unified Agenda assignment due

Tues, Feb 26 Adjudications, continues

Mon, March 3 State Models of Administrative Law Primary Sources


Adjudications assignment due Tues, March 4

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