General Resources
Here are links to some generally useful material about adminstrative law
Administrative Procedure Act -- The text of the APA and cognate provisions of the U.S. Code.
Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook — Every federal administrative procedure statute (21 in all) gathered in one place.
Code of Federal Regulations -- The complete text of the C.F.R.
The Federal Register — a user-friendly on-line version of the Federal Register. Alternatively, you can see a PDF of today’s (or, if it’s a weekend, last Friday’s) print Federal Register here.
Federal Administrative Decisions and Other Actions -- A set of agency-by-agency links to decisions and material of the sort not published in the Federal Register: opinions by ALJs and appeals boards, E-FOIA Reading Rooms, informal directives, etc. Maintained by the University of Virginia Law Library.
Index of federal agencies -- From USA.gov (part of the General Service Administration’s Technology Transformation Services). It's a long list.
Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies — This volume, published by the Administrative Conference of the United States (see below), provides a sweeping overview of the federal bureaucracy, categorizing agencies in light of their placement, structure, and design.
Compilation of Presidential Documents -- The current Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents, and its predecessor Weekly Compilation back to 1993, containing executive orders, proclamations, and other materials released by the White House.
Administrative Law Research Tutorial -- A helpful guide to administrative law research prepared by the librarians at the Georgetown Law Center.
ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice -- The leading professional organization devoted to the field.
Bremer-Kovacs Collection — A comprehensive collection of materials related to the background and passage of the APA, including but not at all limited to standard legislative history. Requires access to Hein OnLine.
Blogs and Journals
Notice and Comment -- A joint blog of the ABA Ad Law Section and the Yale Journal on Regulation. Lots of interesting updates and commentary.
The Regulatory Review -- A wide-ranging weekly newsletter on recent developments and current topics in the world of federal regulation. Publishes on Mondays, with a “week in review” section every Friday. From the Penn Program on Regulation.
GW Regulation Digest — A weekly newsletter with links to news reports, articles, agency actions, opinion pieces, and other items from and about the world of regulation. From the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.
OFR Blog -- From the Office of the Federal Register, which turns out to be a much more frequent publisher than blogger.
Administrative and Regulatory Law News -- This is a quarterly newsletter published by the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. The site includes back issues to 1996. The newsletter has brief and helpful articles on various topics, including recent cases of interest.
Administrative Law Review -- Arguably the leading specialty journal in the field.
Yale Journal on Regulation -- Also arguably the leading specialty journal in the field, with a slightly greater interdisciplinary emphasis than the Administrative Law Review.
Entities
Centers and institutions working in and sponsoring events about administrative law.
GW Regulatory Studies Center -- Research center housed at George Washington University. You can subscribe to the weekly Regulation Digest—”a weekly compendium of regulatory policy, news and analysis”—here.
C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State—Research center housed at the Antonin Scalia Law School (George Mason University)
Penn Program on Regulation — Research center housed at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Administrative Conference of the United States -- ACUS is a federal agency charged with studying and making recommendations for improving the federal administrative process. It has a Chair, a small permanent staff, and a 100 "members" drawn from government and the private sector who vote on recommendations, which are generally influential. ACUS publications include:
Assembly Recommendations and Reports. ACUS issues about a dozen recommendations each year to enhance efficiency and fairness in the administrative state. A report by an administrative law expert or ACUS staff supports each recommendation.
Information Interchange Bulletins. These one-page documents provide handy summaries of the black-letter law on specific administrative procedure topics. They also point to additional resources, including relevant ACUS recommendations and reports.
Sourcebooks. These collections include the Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies and the Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (a handy collection of federal ad law statutes).
Summary of Recent Administrative Law Reform Bills introduced in Congress.
National Academy of Public Administration -- a non-partisan, congressionally chartered think tank that does studies and undertakes specific sponsored projects for individual agencies. Its focus is less on law and more on policy, organization, and management.