Is Administrative Law Unlawful? A Roundtable Discussion with Philip Hamburger

Sponsored by The Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Monday, January 22, 2018 Stanford Law School The ever-increasing power and breadth of the modern administrative state is one of the most pressing issues in constitutional law. Yet discussion of the issues has sometimes lacked a deep attention to history. Philip Hamburger's Is Administrative Law Unlawful? is an important attempt address that lack. Through a sophisticated historical account linking administrative power to royal prerogative power, Hamburger argues that administrative law is not a benign modern-day invention, but instead a pernicious--and profoundly unlawful--return to rule by absolute power. View the discussion of Hamburger's important and provocative book, with commentary by several leading constitutional and administrative law scholars.