Approximate completion time 25 minutes.

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This lessons covers the costs and benefits of agency guidance and advice.

adm08

Approximate completion time 1 hour.

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This lesson introduces students to the Federal APA with special emphasis on (1) mapping the relationship of its parts and (2) closely examining the text of the principal sections.

adm06

Approximate completion time 10 - 15 minutes.

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This lesson presents a graphic examination of agency decisionmaking processes designed to illustrate their basic features and to highlight the design and drafting strategies which can optimize such qualities as expertise and objectivity in administrative decisionmaking.

adm01

Approximate completion time 45 minutes.

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This lesson examines the source of ex parte communications in administrative agencies, the typical targets of such communications, and the law which governs them. It treats both formal and informal proceedings and both rulemaking and adjudication procedures.

adm03

Approximate completion time 1 hour.

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This lesson provides a graphic exploration of the complex and ambiguous placement of the administrative process in our constitutional scheme and the relationship of that process to the legislative, executive and judicial branches.

adm05

Approximate completion time 0.5 - 0.75 hours.

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This lesson graphs a systematic way of thinking about the varying levels of intensity with which courts review agency decisions. It considers the various statutory and common law review formulas, the type of agency proceedings to which they apply, and how they are interpreted.

adm02

Approximate completion time 45 minutes.

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This lesson presents a schematic flowchart or algorithm illustrating one approach to determining whether due process applies to a particular agency hearing and, if it does, how one determines what procedures are required and the time at which they must be made available. It references several of the basic Supreme Court cases (Goldberg, Roth, Perry, Goss, Mathews, etc.).

adm07

Approximate completion time 1 hour.

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Because so many fundamental administrative law cases involve ratemaking, a feel for this process is a useful adjunct to the study of administrative law. The program considers why we allow agencies to set prices in some markets, how agencies determine the total revenue needed by the regulated company, and how the burden of producing that revenue is allocated among different classes of ratepayers. The program focuses on classic "cost of service" ratemaking, with some brief mention of reform efforts under way in many areas.

adm04

Approximate completion time 1.5 hours.

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This program is designed to be useful to students interested in improving their exam-writing techniques. In much of the written work done by lawyers (including writing exams as students), a special form of writing is used. The program begins with an explicit discussion of that form, and the structural implications it has. Within that specific context, the program goes on to discuss the tasks to be performed, the tools used in performing those tasks, and methods of sharpening those tools. The program concludes with some interactive opportunities to try the techniques described.

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Approximate completion time 30 minutes.

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Many important state concerns are within the power of states to regulate (e.g., highway safety, waste disposal, environmental degradation) but state regulation of such concerns can have, in today's world, substantial impacts outside the state. This program diagrams the three constitutional clauses which govern the validity of state impacts of this kind: the so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, the Supremacy Clause and the Privileges and Immunities Clause.

A basic diagram or flow-chart is developed, after which, the program provides summaries of the principal doctrines and digests of several of the landmark cases. The program is not an extended textual treatment of the issues; instead, it is an effort to show in graphic form the components of the various doctrines and how they relate. From there, the student should be able to read other cases and texts with more understanding.

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