Administrative Law and Politics: Cases and Comments - Softcover

This proven casebook continues to lay a foundation of knowledge for effective decision making and critical evaluation of ethics in the rule of law with case excerpts and sharp commentary. This text has been updated to include discussion of:

• whether risk of future harm from government electronic surveillance is an injury sufficient to show standing
• enforcement of sovereign immunity when a citizen attempts to sue a state agency
• the importance of due process in the face of attempts to shut down Yucca mountain as a nuclear waste facility
• the negotiated rulemaking process for Title IV regulations
• the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

New cases include Christopher v. Smithkline Beechman Corp., Vance v. Ball State University, Milner v. Department of the Navy, and Clapper v. Amnesty International USA. Updated end-of-chapter exercises and questions encourage students to consider issues such as the NSA’s surveillance tactics exposed by Edward Snowden and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of Smith v. Maryland to give government the right to access citizens’ private phone records, the University of Montana’s “Resolution Agreement” regarding sexual harassment on its campus, and why the Justice Department chose to prosecute JP Morgan with civil instead of criminal charges for its enabling of Bernie Madoff’s illicit Ponzi scheme.

Christine B. Harrington is professor of politics at New York University; she is also affiliated with the Institute for Law and Society and New York University School of Law. She is the author of Shadow Justice: The Ideology and Institutionalization of Alternatives to Court and editor of Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression (with Maureen Cain) and The Presidency in American Politics (with Paul Brace and Gary King). Her publications have appeared in Social and Legal Studies, Law and Policy, Law and Society Review, and Journal of Law and Policy, among others. She received the APSA Law and Courts Section’s Teaching and Mentoring Award in 2004, and she is co-founder and chair of the Consortium on Graduate Law and Society Programs.

Lief H. Carter served as Colorado College’s McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership from 1995 to 2004. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1973 to 1995. He is the author of Reason in Law, Seventh Edition and has published major texts in constitutional law, legal reasoning, and administrative law. He was the first faculty member at the University of Georgia to receive the top award for teaching intwo different years, and he has won national awards and recognition from the American Political Science Association.