Law Course Catalog

7600. Administrative Law

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

This course explores the process by which power is exercised by federal government agencies in the United States, and the mechanisms through which that exercise of power is guided and constrained.  Among the topics to be covered include a number of the principal dilemmas of regulation, the controversies surrounding agency efforts to cope with these dilemmas, and the arguments for and against leading regulatory experiments and proposals for regulatory reform.