Definition
Administrative law is the branch of law governing the creation and operation of administrative agencies. It is also a body of rules, procedures, and principles created by government agencies and departments in order to carry out laws created by courts (case law) and legislatures (statutes).
Introduction
This entry summarizes federal and state/territorial administrative law as it affects security management and emergency management (McKinney 2018) (see also infra Law: Specialized (REAL ID, OBIM, SAFETY Act, and more)). Federal administrative law primarily concerns the powers and procedures of federal administering agencies in relation to the public (but usually not in criminal matters). It is the Congress that grants general and specific powers to various federal agencies through enabling legislation as well as the general laws for their fair and orderly administration. These executive powers are often quasi-legislative in nature (via rules and regulations applicable to a...
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5 U.S. Code. (2018). Chapter 5 – administrative procedure, Cornell Law School LII (APA), https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/part-I/chapter-5
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Further Readings
Administrative Conference of the United States website, https://www.acus.gov/
Administrative Law Guide, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/law/help/administrative.php
Harvard Law School Office of Public Interest Advising. (2011) A guide to careers in administrative law, https://hls.harvard.edu/content/uploads/2011/08/adminlawguide.pdf
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Govern, K. (2018). Law: Administrative. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_18-1
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