William S. Jordan, III, is a C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law, where he teaches Administrative Law and Property. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan. Following law school, he served as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He then entered the private sector with Washington, D.C. firm of Sheldon, Harmon, Roisman & Weiss, which became Harmon, Weiss, and Jordan, where he engaged primarily in environmental and administrative litigation. He has taught at The University of Akron since 1985. Professor Jordan’s research has addressed various aspects of judicial review. He is a former president of the Central States Law School Association. Professor Jordan is a member of the Council of the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the ABA. He is also co-chair of the Section’s Judicial Review Committee and a contributing editor to Administrative and Regulatory Law News. He is a co-editor, with Charles Koch and Richard Murphy, of Administrative Law: Cases and Materials (5th Ed.), published by Lexis-Nexis.
Articles
Updating Deference: The Court’s 2001-2002 Term Sows More Confusion About Chevron, Environmental Law Reporter (2002)
The U.S. Supreme Court's Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. decision has...
Judicial Review of Informal Statutory Interpretations: The Answer is Chevron Step Two, not Christensen or Mead, Administrative Law Review (2002)
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken the wrong approach to review of informal statutory interpretations...
United States v. Mead: Complicating the Delegation Dance, Environmental Law Reporter (2001)
On June 18, 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Mead Corp., the...
Judges, Ideology, and Policy in the Administrative State: Lessons from a Decade of Hard Look Remands of EPA Rules, Administrative Law Review (2001)
In this Article, I report on an empirical examination of this question. My purpose is...
Envirocare v. NRC Increases Agency Discretion to Deny Administrative Intervention: Right Result--Wrong Reason, Environmental Law Reporter (2000)
The law of standing to intervene in administrative proceedings has long been something of a...
Books
Administrative Law : Cases and Materials (with Charles H. Koch and Richard W. Murphy) (2006)
The goals of the administrative process.
Introduction to agency decision making.
Matching the...