The Possibility of Experimentalist Administrative Agencies

Jamison E. Colburn, Western New England College, School of Law

Abstract

In this introduction to and summary of my JSD dissertation (submitted for defense at Columbia University in April 2007), I review my research and some of my conclusions, 2002-06. I argue that the normative and institutional structure of lawmaking by administrative agencies makes them unfit for solving complex and evolving public problems like biodiversity loss.