Administrative Law
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The first chapter presents the author's view of administrative law and the basic outline to be followed by the book. The author states that, in his view, analysis of judicial deference to agency action has followed a trichotomy model: adjudicatory fairness, politics, and scientific expertise. Analysis involves distinguishing these three paradigms and matching particular elements of an agency decision with an appropriate paradigm. A court will with determine the appropriate degree of deference based on whether the agency employed the right method of decision making or whether the method was properly executed (Edley, 1990, p. 3).The author then states that to rely upon the trichotomy of decision making methods is to reincarnate the formalism of separation of powers, which was abandoned in the 1930s. Thus, the legal reasoning utilized by courts in administrative law cases looks back to the pre-New Deal judicial doctrines, ignoring the problems which supposedly led to the abandonment of these doctrines (Edley, 1990, p. 4). The abandonment of separation of powers formalism was a response by the Supreme Court in the 1930s to the realization that a less rigid doctrine was needed to accommodate modern exigencies. The new approach focused upon the regularization of administrative processes, the presumptive availability of judicial review, and judicial deference to administrative expertise. The result has been sweeping administrative discretion,
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radigm results in doctrinal murkiness. Each paradigm is associated with a set of positive and negative norms. The political choice paradigm contains the positive attributes of accountability and participation; it also contains the negative attributes of majority tyranny, unaccountable subjectivity, and unprincipled willfulness. The scientific paradigm contains the positive attributes of objectivity, professionalism, and rationality; but it also contains the negative attributes of the possible isolation of the experts, insensitivity to external criticism, and unresponsiveness to the legitimate claims of political accountability. The adjudicatory fairness paradigm's positive attributes of neutrality, fairness, and formal regularity may be offset by the negative attributes of proceduralism and precedent-bound conservatism (Edley, 1990, pp. 83-86).
Chapter 4
Chapter Four concerns the scope of judicial review. The author points out that much of administrative law is dependent upon defining what degree of deference a court will afford an agency's actions. At least one commentator has asserted that when addressing questions not within their own special competence, courts limit themselves to deciding reasonableness. In doing so,
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