Judicial review of agency interpretation of statutes: deference doctrines in comparative perspective.

   Whether we attain democracy will consequently depend upon 
   administrative law: upon the legal forces which pull--or fail to 
   pull--government decision-making towards democratic 
   decision-making. 

I. Introduction

Judicial review of administrative action is one of the cornerstones of modern administrative law. Accompanying the rise of the modern administrative state has been the judicial development of principles that set the outer limits of administrative action and ensure that the bureaucracy acts in the public interest. One such principle is that when the legislature confers decision-making authority onto an administrative agency, courts ought to defer to an ...

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