It surveys the means by which people (and their lawyers) can challenge or influence administrative exercises of authority in the face of often broad or ambiguous delegations of authority from Congress, and in particular how and when agency decisions are subject to judicial review. This is a course about laws and rules that bind federal agencies, and thus about the extent to which federal agencies can make rules and decisions that bind us. Indeed, one agency, the Social Security Administration, adjudicates more cases every year than all the state and federal courts combined.
These agencies have the power to make legally binding rules (aka "regulations" or "red tape"), to issue valuable permits and licenses, to levy fines, and to adjudicate. As a result, in the United States a multitude of governmental agencies exercise authority over the economy, and over the lives of every American. Very often implementation is via a federal agency. Most laws that Congress passes require implementation.
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