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Harvard Law School; Swarthmore College.
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Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy by Christopher Edley Jr. (1992-07-29)
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Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy
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This seminal book presents a fundamental reconsideration of modern American administrative law. According to Christopher Edley, the guiding principle in this field is that courts should apply legal doctrines to control the discretion of unelected bureaucrats. In practice, however, these doctrines simply give unelected judges largely unconstrained—and inescapable—discretion. Assessed on its own terms, says Edley, administrative law is largely a failure. He discussed why and how this is so and argues that law should abandon its obsession with bureaucratic discretion and pursue instead the direct promotion of sound governance. Edley demonstrates that legal analyses of separation of powers and of judicial oversight of agencies implicitly use three decision-making paradigms: politics, scientific expertise, and adjudicatory fairness. Conventional wisdom maintains, for example, that judges should hesitate to question the political choices of legislators and the expertise of administrators, but need not be so deferential in addressing questions of law. Such judicial efforts to police governance have largely failed because, as Edley shows in several contexts, they attempt to appraise decision-making paradigms as though they were separable when in fact the important decisions of both judges and political officials combine elements of politics, science, and fairness. According to Edley, unsustainable boundaries among these paradigms cannot be a satisfactory basis for deciding when a court should interfere. Law must stop focusing on separation of powers and instead direct attention to such issues as bureaucratic incompetence, systemic agency delay, and political bias.
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Christopher Fairchild Edley
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He serves as President of the Opportunity Institute, an organization he co-founded with Hillary Clinton advisor Ann O"Leary. In 2011 he was appointed by United States. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as co-chair of the congressionally chartered National Commission on Equity and Excellence in Education. After receiving his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College he attended Harvard Law School, where he later served as a professor, teaching Administrative Law and founding the Harvard Civil Rights Project.
In the 2008 presidential election, he supported and advised candidate Barack Obama, one of his former students at Harvard Law School.
On August 16, 2013, he announced his intention to resign as Berkeley Law dean, effective December 31, 2013. According to legal journalist Emily Bazelon, Edley "has written thoughtfully and moderately about affirmative action.".
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book
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Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy
( This seminal book presents a fundamental reconsideratio...)
- Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy
- Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy by Christopher Edley Jr. (1992-07-29)
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Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy
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Edley has been a leading figure in Democratic policy circles for four decades, serving as a senior member of five presidential campaigns, as an economic policy and budget official under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and as a chair of the Obama-Biden transition team He served as an advisor to President Clinton"s One America Initiative, was a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and chaired President Clinton"s 1998 Affirmative Action Review.
