Administrative Substance

One cannot obtain a complete understanding of the American administrative state without an appreciation of the actual and potential contributions of judicial review. For too long, however, those who study and teach the subject have been unduly preoccupied with the role of the courts and with the question of administrative procedure. The purpose of the discussion is to shift the focus away from procedure and instead to obtain a preliminary sense of administrative substance-an area in which, the author suggests, we should predict large eventual gains in the study of administrative law