4:00 pm – 5:30pm Discussion | 5:30pm – 6:00pm Reception

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. Join the Constitutional Law Center for a discussion of Hamburger’s important and provocative book, with commentary by several leading constitutional and administrative law scholars.