Law · Boston College
This seminar course will focus on important debates and real-world controversies relating to administrative and structural constitutional law. It will examine from practical, constitutional, and rule-of-law perspectives central features of the modern administrative state, including as characterized by some of its strongest critics. Are various aspects of federal agencies genuinely worrisome, or reflective of the complexity of governance? What forces have driven the evolution of government agencies? And what have critics of relevant constitutional doctrine and administrative law gotten wrong? O
