| Table of Abbreviations | |
| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
| Preface to the First Edition | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Constitutional Position of the Administrative Agency | 37 |
| 3 | Administrative Discretion, Administrative Substance, and Regulatory Performance | 165 |
| 4 | The Scope of Judicial Review - Questions of Fact, Law, and Policy | 227 |
| 5 | "Common Law" Requirements: Clarity, Consistency, "Fairness" | 489 |
| 6 | Procedural Requirements in Agency Decisionmaking: Rulemaking and Adjudication | 641 |
| 7 | Agency Decisionmaking Structure | 887 |
| 8 | The Availability and Timing of Judicial Review | 951 |
| App. A | Selected Provisions from the Federal Administrative Procedure Act | 1177 |
| App. B | Selected Provisions from the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act | 1203 |
| App. C | Negotiated Rulemaking and Alternative Dispute Resolution Act | 1211 |
| Table Correlating Provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act as Presently Codified in 5 U.S.C. and Sections of the Act as Originally Enacted in 1946 | 1225 |
| Table of Cases | 1227 |
| Index | 1243 |