Administrative Edicts or the Rule of Law: How Shall We Be Governed?

AWC Family Foundation lecture:

Administrative Edicts or the Rule of Law: How Shall We Be Governed?

Philip Hamburger
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question becomes more significant as the modern administrative state continues to expand. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through administrative rules and adjudication, raising disturbing questions about the effect of this sort of state power on American government and society.

Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. The author of Is Administrative Law Unlawful? and Separation of Church and State, he has taught at the University of Chicago Law School, the George Washington University Law School, the University of Virginia Law School, and Northwestern Law School.