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Exercise Of Executive Discretion: A Study Of A Regional Office Of The Department Of Labor, Michael C. Harper
Exercise Of Executive Discretion: A Study Of A Regional Office Of The Department Of Labor, Michael C. Harper
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Writing for a recent symposium on empirical research in administrative law, Professor Paul Verkuil noted that such research "casts light on one of the dark corners of the law. The vast majority of administrative decisions are of the informal variety, meaning they take place outside the reach of generic administrative procedure acts and frequently outside the courts themselves."' We are only beginning to appreciate how vast is this dark corner and how varied the possible modes of illumination.
This essay casts some additional light into the corner by reporting on a study of the exercise of executive discretion by a …