Administrative Competence

Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She is the author of the award-winning Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (2007) and Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction (2017). Sidney A. Shapiro is Frank U. Fletcher Chair in Administrative Law at Wake Forest University. He is co-author of ten books, including Achieving Democracy: Pragmatism, Regulation and Markets (2014), Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring A Pragmatic Approach (2003), and Administrative Law and Procedure (6th Edition, 2019).

• 1. The State We Are In; Part I. Making Administrative Competence Visible: 2. Expert Administrative Capacity; 3. Administrative Accountability; Part II. Confronting the Origin Myths of Administrative Law: 4. Enlightened Foundations; 5. Debating Administrative Law: From the Spoils System to the New Deal; 6. The Emergence of Administrative Law and the Limits of Legal Imagination; 7. The Narrowing of the Administrative Law Imagination; Part III. The Law of Public Administration: 8. Administrative Competence and the Chevron Doctrine; 9. Hard Look Review; 10. Conclusion: Towards an Enlightened Administrative Law.

'... the book acts as a bridge between legal thought, administrative expertise, and the fiery rhetoric of politics ... I am pleased to recommend the book, which would be appropriate to assign for administrative law and regulation classes in MPA curricula.' Christopher L. Atkinson, Public Organization Review