Seminar in Admin Law: Lawyering in the Modern Admin State

This is not a course in Administrative Law at least not necessarily. I will launch the course with attention to four books apropos of the current fraught jurisprudential politics of the modern administrative state, per se: THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE (2021) by Lorenzo Castellani; THE DUBIOUS MORALITY OF MODERN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (2020), by Richard Epstein; LAW & LEVIATHAN (2020) by Sunstein and Vermeule; and PURCHASING SUBMISSION (2021), by Philip Hamburger. Shop this elective course by scouting out those books and by inquiring among Maurer students about experiences Maurer students have had in courses I teach. Customarily, in this course the students themselves do much to shape both the substance of the course and its modus operandi. In any event, the course will proceed as a roundtable discussion; if you neither like talking in class nor want to learn to like talking in class, then spare yourself this course and spare those who take the course your unhelpful presence.