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  2. Administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regulations"), adjudication, and the enforcement of laws.

  3. United States administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."

  4. Administrative Procedure Act - Wikipedia

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    The APA's capacity to hold accountable regulatory business monitors that oversee civil matters that apply "'soft' administrative law" is also limited. [14]: 8 The Final Report organized federal administrative action into two parts: adjudication and rulemaking. [12]

  5. Administrative law judge - Wikipedia

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    An administrative law judge (ALJ) in the United States is a judge and trier of fact who both presides over trials and adjudicates claims or disputes involving administrative law. ALJs can administer oaths , take testimony , rule on questions of evidence , and make factual and legal determinations.

  6. Adjudication - Wikipedia

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    Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants, to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved.

  7. Rulemaking - Wikipedia

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    In administrative law, rulemaking is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations.In general, legislatures first set broad policy mandates by passing statutes, then agencies create more detailed regulations through rulemaking.

  8. Administrative Conference of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Two recent resources include the Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies, [17] which comprehensively catalogs the agencies and other organizational entities of the federal executive establishment, and the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database, a joint project with Stanford Law School to “map the contours of the federal ...

  9. Quasi-legislative capacity - Wikipedia

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    Another distinctive feature of quasi-legislative activity is the provision of notice and a hearing. When an administrative agency intends to pass or change a rule that affects substantive legal rights, it usually must provide notice of this intent and hold a public hearing. This gives members of the public a voice in the quasi-legislative activity.