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State and Federal Administrative Law (American Casebook Series)

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This is hands-down the worst casebook I've had in my two years of law school.

Explanations, summaries, and selection of detail of cases are unclear and hard to follow. I'd been working at an agency for several months before beginning the class that used this book, and even the doctrines with which I was intimitely familiar were unclear to the point that I second-guessed my understanding--until I actually read the cases on Westlaw.

Summaries of cases and doctrine tend to be completely impertinent to current case and statutory law; in many instances, the authors describe outdated precedents for pages only to state in a single sentence at the end of the section that the precedents just described have no import any more. I'd have no problem with such histories if they were prefaced as historical or now-bad law!