Course Description

LAWS 5205
Legislation and Regulation
General Description:
Introduces lawmaking in the modern administrative state. Examines the way Congress and administrative agencies adopt binding rules of law (statutes and regulations, respectively) and the way that implementing institutions ? courts and administrative agencies ? interpret and apply these laws. Considers the structure of the modern administrative state, the incentives that influence the behavior of the various actors, and the legal rules that help to structure the relationships among Congress, the agencies, and the courts.

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LAWS 5205-801

Instructor(s): Harold Bruff

Meeting Times & Locations:
   Mon,Wed   1:00 PM - 2:20 PM   WOLF 204

Syllabus: Fall 2012 Legislation and Regulation Syllabus

First Assignment: Fall 2012 Legislation and Regulation First Week Assignments


LAWS 5205-802

Instructor(s): Helen Norton

Meeting Times & Locations:
   Mon,Wed   1:00 PM - 2:20 PM   WOLF 205

First Assignment: Manning & Stephenson, Legislation and Regulation, pp. 1-28


LAWS 5205-803

Instructor(s): Ming Chen

Meeting Times & Locations:
   Mon,Wed   1:00 PM - 2:20 PM   WOLF 206

First Assignment:

Bressman Rubin Stack, Preface to The Regulatory State

On TWEN: Elizabeth Garrett, Teaching Law and Politics, Journal of Legislation and Public Policy (2003); Lawrence Friedman, Total Justice, pp. 38-52