Administrative Law

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Credits 2 to 3. 2 to 3 Lecture Hours. Legal principles and procedures an unelected bureaucracy must conform to achieve legitimacy; problems inherent in a relatively disunited body of law derived from disparate sources; concentration on the Constitution and other federal law as the primary sources for administrative law and procedure; may include constitutional underpinnings of the federal bureaucracy, judicial review of agency fact finding and legal interpretation, extra-statutory administrative common law, grounds for dividing administrative actions into adjudication and rule making, essential components of due process in agency adjudication, and availability of judicial review of agency action. Prerequisite: One year of law school in the full-time or part-time program.