Section on Administrative Law Columbia 2, North Tower/Lobby Level, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Breaking the News About the Regulatory State to Today’s Law Students Regulatory agencies have been fixtures in state and federal government for over one hundred years, and they have been our dominant mode of governance for at least the last half century. Yet, we still structure the law school curriculum as if we lived in the common law era. The only general course on regulatory law is the upper class administrative law course, which is typically taught as just one more subject area for courts to review. In recent years, however, law schools throughout the country have begun to explore curricular approaches that acknowledge the central role of regulatory law in modern government, and that attempt to prepare students for the realities of practice in our heavily administrative legal system. This session will present some of these approaches, and explain their rationales. It will also discuss the challenges that law teachers face in their efforts to redirect and re-conceptualize the basic character of legal education to take account of the dramatic transformation that our legal system has experienced. Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.
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