Administrative Law - Hardcover

Cann, Steven J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761909761 ISBN 13: 9780761909767

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

Synopsis

This casebook of United States administrative law is an essential tool for those seeking to understand, or obliged to work within, its general principles.

Each chapter begins with a case outline that introduces key concepts and ends with summaries of the law principles, doctrines and legal tests presented in the chapter. The author uses democracy as the conceptual framework for administrative law, a unique approach, which places U S administrative law within a more comprehensible context.

For its Second Edition, this benchmark work has been completely updated and includes many new cases.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Distinguishing features of this text:

Student-Friendly Conceptual Framework. The book is organized around a conceptual framework that contrasts democracy with the administrative state or “fourth branch of government” (significant policy making by insulated technocrats and bureaucrats).

Illustrative Cases. Each chapter begins with a scenario, or case in point, presented somewhat polemically, to pique the students' interest. These cases demonstrate the central point of the chapter, and, often, the student is referred back to that case to illustrate concepts throughout the chapter.

More Case Content. In contrast to other texts that use cases, this book includes more cases and more of each case so students can better grasp what led to the lawsuit and how the Court resolved it. In addition to the introductory case in point, the book presents cases throughout each chapter and chapters end with several more cases relevant to the chapter material. The cases in the middle of chapters tend to be “classics,” whereas the cases ending each chapter represent more recent decisions on the same points of law.

Summary of Doctrines. Each chapter includes a summary of administrative law doctrines, legal principles, and constitutional tests that students have gleaned from the cases presented in the chapter and that they should be able to apply to the end-of-chapter cases or to hypothetical cases.

Pedagogical Design. The book is designed to be compatible with a problem-solving pedagogical approach. Questions at the end of cases query students' understanding of doctrines, principles, and constitutional tests and whether the court applied those doctrines, principles, and tests; modified them; or ignored them. Also, the summary at the end of each chapter is compatible with a pedagogical approach that uses testing by hypothetical cases and requires students to outline. Case text from the courts is presented in a double-column format, which should make for easy reference to specific cases.

About the Author:

Steven J. Cann is a Full Professor, Prelaw Coordinator and Former Chairman of the Department of Political Science, at Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas. He has published in the area of substantive constitutional law, primarily in civil liberties. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Purdue University in 1977. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Kansas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (Ks. ASPA). He served as the President of Ks. ASPA from 1999-2000. Dr. Cann has been certified as an expert witness in Kansas District Court. He is a three-time nominee for Who′s Who Among America′s Teachers.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761909761
• ISBN 13: 9780761909767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464