Administrative Law

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Summary: This book is terrible.
Review: I thought I was purchasing an Administrative Law text book. This is not a text book. It is a book of this guy's opinion. For example, he writes that the courts are not well suited to the task of being a watchdog over agencies and says that the members of the Reagan Supreme Court believe that it is not the proper judicial role for for judges to play an active role in policy making. The guy never mentions that the Consitution makes a separation between the courts and legislature -- he just decides to bash Reagan and his appointees. He also states: "...the Depts. of Education and energy are still alive and well today and apparently not endangered despite nearly 2 decades of attack by Republican presidents...even though the agency's (National Endowment for the Arts) budget is less than a pittance of the whole federal budget, the agency has become the symbolic whipping boy of Speaker Newt Gingrich..." This opinion has nothing to do with administrative law, and is completely unnecessary. I certainly hope anyone who has to read this book for a class will think for themselves before taking what this guy says as law. Further, he says he's a professor at, according to US News, a fourth tier law school: Washburn University. However, I can't seem to find his e-mail address there.