Regulatory Reform and Innovation

Contact Information:
328 Law School
P.O. Box 780
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Room 3.07
Notre Dame Law School
1 Suffolk Street London, UK SW1Y 4HG

South Bend Office: (574) 631-2727
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E-mail: Camacho.13@nd.edu

Staff Assistant:
Gerri Lehmkuhl (South Bend)

Syllabus

First Day Readings:

1. Richard Stewart, Administrative Law in the 21st Century, 78 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 437, 437-55 (2003).
   
   
2. Jody Freeman, Collaborative Governance in the Administrative State, 45 UCLA L. Rev. 1, 8-21 (1997).
   
   
3. Lester M. Salamon, The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction, in Tools Of Government read 1-6, skim 6-18, read 19-24 (2006).
   
   
4. Optional: John Haley, Administrative Law, in Introduction to the Law in the United States (2002) 97-113 (a primer for those unfamiliar with administrative law).

1. Why do we regulate?
   
   
2. Why do agencies raise “democratic anxiety?”
   
   
3. How do the various normative models of administrative regulation purport to address this legitimacy concern?
   
   
4. What are the limitations of each model?
   
   
5. What critiques of existing administrative regulation and normative models of administrative law does Freeman raise?
   
   
6. How does Salamon’s “New Governance” or “tools” approach to regulation differ from how we traditionally analyze agencies?
   
   
7. What criteria can be used for evaluating different regulatory tools? Materials available through the Library's electronic course reserve