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90 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1557 (1995-1996)
Fierce Compromise: The Administrative Procedure Act Emerges from New Deal Politics

handle is hein.journals/illlr90 and id is 1575 raw text is: Copyright 1996 by Northwestern University, School of Law Printed in U.S.A. Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 90, No. 4 FIERCE COMPROMISE: THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT EMERGES FROM NEW DEAL POLITICS George B. Shepherd* I. INTRODUCTION .......................................... 1558 II. PRELUDE TO BATTLE .................................... 1561 A. Administrative Agencies and New Deal Politics .... 1561 B. Reform Proposals Outside the Spotlight ............ 1565 C. The 1929 Norris Bill ................................ 1566 D. The 1933 Logan Bill ................................ 1568 E. The American Bar Association's Special Committee on Administrative Law .............................. 1569 F. The 1935-1936 ABA Administrative Court Proposal ............................................. 1575 G. The 1936 Logan-Celler Administrative Court Bill... 1578 H. The Federal Register Act ........................... 1580 III. NEW Focus ON ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN 1937 ..... 1580 A. New Approach: The ABA's 1937 Procedural Reform Proposal .................................... 1582 B. Roosevelt's Executive Reorganization Fight ......... 1584 IV. GROWING MOMENTUM IN 1938 .......................... 1586 A. Conservative Democrats and the Conservative Coalition ............................................ 1586 B. The 1938 Logan Administrative Court Bill and Senate Hearings ..................................... 1588 C. The ABA's 1938 Committee and Roscoe Pound .... 1590 V. THE WALTER-LOGAN BILL AND CONSERVATIVE POWER OF 1939-1940 ............................................ 1593 A. Several New Bills ................................... 1593 B. The Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure ........................... 1594 C. The Walter-Logan Bill .............................. 1598 D. The Senate Judiciary Committee's Approval ........ 1601 * Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law. I thank Thomas C. Arthur, Ian Ayres, Timothy Bresnahan, William Buzbee, Daniel P. Kessler, Linda Mabry, William T. Mayton, Roger G. Noll, A. Mitchell Polinsky, William G. Shepherd, Geoffrey R. Watson, Barry R. Weingast, and seminar participants at Emory University School of Law and Stanford Univer- sity for their comments. 1557

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