Administrative agencies lie at the heart of all public-law subjects, from tax and securities regulation to labor and environmental law, from communications and energy law to white-collar crime and intellectual property, and from health-care and financial institutions to civil rights, land use, and antitrust law. 

Administrative Law is a three-hour course that looks at the conduct of federal administrative agencies and their relationship to the three constitutionally prescribed branches. We study the legal rules that empower and constrain them and consider the rules for review by the judiciary, Congress, and the public.

Part of this course involves learning more about individual agencies' approaches to administrative law issues, the differences among the agencies, and the emergence of what Prof. Peter Strauss calls "e-government."  Toward that end, we will learn to do some administrative law research and find out what some of the agencies are doing on the Web.