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The Maryland Administrative Procedure Act: Forty Years Old In 1997, Edward A. Tomlinson
The Maryland Administrative Procedure Act: Forty Years Old In 1997, Edward A. Tomlinson
Maryland Law Review
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Rethinking The Doctrine Of Legitimate Expectations In Canadian Administrative Law, David Wright
Rethinking The Doctrine Of Legitimate Expectations In Canadian Administrative Law, David Wright
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
The author examines recent cases that have transplanted the doctrine of legitimate expectations from British into Canadian law. He concludes that the doctrine has been applied in a confused way in this country, without proper consideration of its "fit" with the Canadian duty of fairness. He argues that the place of the doctrine should be to determine what fairness requires when statements or actions of a decisionmaker have led to a legitimate expectation. The suggestion that it should be an exception to the rule that legislative decisions do not attract the duty of fairness is rejected in favour of a …
Participation Run Amok: The Costs Of Mass Participation For Deliberative Agency Decisionmaking, Jim Rossi
Participation Run Amok: The Costs Of Mass Participation For Deliberative Agency Decisionmaking, Jim Rossi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article addresses the implications of broad-based participatory reforms for administrative process, with a particular focus on how participation reveals itself in different political-theoretic models of agency governance. The first section of the Article explores participation's value to agency governance. The second section of the Article presents three models of agency governance - expertocratic, pluralist, and civic republican - and discusses participation's importance to each model. The Article then posits a distinction between ordinary and constitutive agency decision-making, and explores how participation affects each for the three distinct models of agency governance. The implications of mass participation are explored in …