The Administrative Procedure Act Project
The Section has undertaken a long-term project on the Administrative Procedure Act and related statutes. The project will examine changes - legislative, judicial, and administrative - that have taken place since 1946 and recommend ways to update, integrate, and clarify the law.
The Project
Recommendations to Amend the APA
Adjudication (to be considered by the ABA House of Delegates in February 2005)
Openness
Guide Books
A Guide to Federal Agency Adjudication
Written with the collaboration of Jack M. Beermann, Phyllis Bernard, Steven P. Croley, Glen O. Robinson and John Hardin Young, A Guide to Federal Agency Adjudication is designed to assist government and private counsel engaged in all varieties of administrative adjudication. The book is an outgrowth of a federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA) study that was launched by the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. While the book is focused primarily on the law of the APA, in light of its in-depth discussion, including many illustrative examples and exhaustive citation to pertinent works, A Guide to Federal Agency Adjudication will prove instructive to all who are involved with administrative agencies, whether at the federal or state level.
Comprehensive in scope, this book includes information and discussion on such topics as:
- Adjudication
under Administrative Procedures Act
- The right to a hearing under the APA
- Pre-hearing, Hearing and Post-hearing requirements
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Informal adjudication
- The ABA's blackletter summary of adjudication
- And
more
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A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking, 4th Edition
The complete source for understanding federal rulemaking and the requirements for each stage in the process.
This fourth edition brings the essential Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking, formerly published by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), completely up-to-date. A concise but thorough resource, the Guide provides a time-saving reference for the latest case law, the most recent legislation affecting rulemaking, and developments in the Clinton Administration. This manual provides agency rulemakers, participants in rulemaking and judicial review, and private practitioners with valuable insights into how federal rules are made, with an integrated view of the procedural requirements.



