Administrative Justice: Advocacy and Change in a Government Agency

by Philippe Nonet

Uses the case study of the California Industrial Accident Commission to explore issues in sociological jurisprudence. It traces the progression of the Commission from a welfare agency with broad discretion in policymaking and interpretation into a relatively passive arbitrator of industrial accident claim disputes. The author examines the effect of the elaboration of legal rules and doctrines, the significance of the procedural aspects of law, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871546272
• ISBN13: 9780871546272
• Release Date: December 1969
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.