Strategies And Techniques For Teaching Administrative Law

The Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Series is intended to help you, as a new law teacher, prepare for your first semesters in the classroom. It begins at the preliminary stages of planning a new course, and takes you all the way to writing and grading your final exam. The authors offer experience and insight to the tasks of coming up with teaching objectives, choosing your book, crafting your syllabus, and creating a classrom atmosphere that is conducive to learning. The day-to-day teaching techniques in this primer for new (and not so new) professors will prepare you to successfully field students' questions, teach legal analysis, and make the most of today's pedagogy and technology to support your teaching.

A new framework for understanding contemporary administrative law, through a comparative analysis of case law from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and New Zealand. The author argues that the field is structured by four values: individual self-realisation, good administration, electoral legitimacy and decisional autonomy.

Help your students grasp important concepts and prepare for exams, with the only outline that guides them from the big picture To The finest details. Jack Beermann's ADMINISTRATIVE LAW offers a unique administrative organizational flow chart presenting the different branches and agencies of the government and their interrelationships. This carefully-crafted teaching and learning tool also: Describes and explains the functions of administrative agencies, The sources of administrative law, The limits and procedural requirements placed on administrative agencies, And The regulating agencies and branches of government that enforce those limits. Focuses special attention on the nature of administrative procedures for policymaking, including rulemaking, adjudication and informal action, and describes procedural innovations such as negotiated rulemaking. Explores alternative methods of controlling administrative discretion including freedom of information, open meetings, and official liability suits. Explains Public Interest and Public Choice Theory, using illustrative examples to clarify the discussion. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW puts salient information in a clear and attractive format to facilitate student understanding. You can recommend this high-quality study guide with confidence for general review or for extra help on a particularly difficult topic.

This casebook focuses on five representative agencies to provide students with a more holistic understanding of the structure and functions of agencies, to illustrate the kinds of actions agencies take to implement their statutory mandates, and to provide context for examining the legal constraints on those actions. Two key problems for teaching and learning administrative law are (1) students' lack of familiarity with agencies, what they do, and their role in the tri-partite system of government established by the Constitution; and (2) the need to understand new and different agencies and figure out their organic statutes for each new administrative law case. Other key features of the book are: The use of a consistent "unit" format throughout the book to maximize student understanding Adaptability to various teaching methods (e.g., lecture, Socratic, or problem method). Flexibility of coverage, including unit clusters that allow teachers to decide the level of coverage for key topics, ranging from a basic overview provided by a single unit to more extensive treatment through coverage of several related units By focusing on five important and representative agencies (the EPA, NLRB, SSA, IRS, and FCC), the book addresses both problems. Extended treatment of these agencies, including one chapter each that uses the agency to present the legal issues surrounding a particular kind of agency action (e.g., EPA to illustrate administrative law issues concerning rulemaking, the NLRB to illustrate the issues arising from agency efforts to make policy through adjudication), provides students with a clearer sense of how agencies are structured, what they do, and how they do it. In addition, our book provides an efficient mechanism for teaching and learning about administrative law: because the principal cases used to illustrate administrative law doctrine and present administrative law issues involve the same five agencies, the need to learn about new agencies and understand new organic statutes is greatly reduced, enabling students and teachers to focus on the administrative law issues in the cases.

The Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Series is intended to help you, as a new law teacher, prepare for your first semesters in the classroom. It begins at the preliminary stages of planning a new course, and takes you all the way to writing and grading your final exam. The authors offer experience and insight to the tasks of coming up with teaching objectives, choosing your book, crafting your syllabus, and creating a classrom atmosphere that is conducive to learning. The day-to-day teaching techniques in this primer for new (and not so new) professors will prepare you to successfully field students' questions, teach legal analysis, and make the most of today's pedagogy and technology to support your teaching.