LAW 208: Administrative Law

This course focuses on alternative mechanisms of enforcing the law. The case method is used to introduce the student to a process differing in historical development and growth from the judicial process. Particular attention is focused on the major agencies and to the principles of law underlying and applicable to all of regulatory agencies. The Federal Administrative Act is covered and due attention is paid to the problems of delegation of legislative power, the nature of a hearing, the right to and scope of judicial review and to other statutory and non-statutory methods of review.