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ad'·min·is·tra·tive lawadj. & n. One of the most important (and hardest) courses in law school.
[N]otice and comment rulemaking is to public participation as Japanese Kabuki Theater is to human passions - a highly stylized process for displaying in a formal way the essence of something which in real life takes place in other venues." — E. Donald Elliott, Re-Inventing Rulemaking, 41 Duke Law Journal 1490, 1492-93 (1992).
Generalizations about standing to sue are largely worthless as such. —Assn.
of Data Processing Service Org. v. Camp, 397 US 150, 151 (1970).
The availability of judicial review is the necessary condition, psychologically if not logically, of a system of administrative power which purports to be legitimate, or legally valid. — Louis L. Jaffe, Judicial Control of Administrative Action 320 (1965).
[T]he rules governing judicial review have no more substance at the core than a seedless grape .... — Ernest Gellhorn & Glen O. Robinson, Perspectives on Administrative Law, 75 Colum. L. Rev. 771, 780 (1975).
Administrative law is not for sissies.
— Antonin Scalia, Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretations of Law, 1989 Duke L.J. 511, 511.