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An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule Of Law In The Administrative State, Kevin M. Stack
An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule Of Law In The Administrative State, Kevin M. Stack
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Essay offers a specification of the rule of law's demands of administrative law and government inspired by Professor Peter L. Strauss's scholarship. It identifies five principles'authorization, notice, justification, coherence, and procedural fairness which provide a framework for an account of the rule of law's demands of administrative governance. Together these principles have intriguing results for the evaluation of administrative law. On the one hand, they reveal rule-of-law foundations for some contested positions, such as a restrictive view of the President's power to direct subordinate officials and giving weight to an agency's determination of the scope of its own authority. …