Before the first edition of Maryland Administrative Law was published six years ago, no other book had attempted to explain, discuss and analyze administrative law in Maryland. Maryland Administrative Law was quickly recognized as an authoritative treatise. The original volume (with its 2004 Supplement) has been cited in numerous opinions by the Maryland courts and has gained a wide and appreciative readership since 2001. Maryland Administrative Law has been regularly relied upon by lawyers, administrative law judges, circuit and appellate judges, law professors and students to gain a better understanding of Maryland’s Office of Administrative Hearings and its unique role as the independent agency within the executive branch that was created to serve as the centralized, consolidated hearing office for other agencies under Maryland’s Administrative Procedures Act.

Now, the new Second Edition of Maryland Administrative Law has been completely rewritten, expanded and updated (research is current through December 2006) to make it an even more valuable reference for Maryland’s legal community. The focus of Maryland Administrative Law, Second Edition remains on the procedural aspects of the administrative process of rulemaking and deciding contested cases – and the judicial review of administrative agency actions in Maryland’s Circuit and Appellate Courts – under the Maryland APA, COMAR, and the Maryland Rules.

Professor Rochvarg, who has taught Federal and Maryland Administrative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 1979, has done an excellent job of expanding and updating his explanation of all of the elements of the contested case process and the appeal of a contested case, as well as his insightful commentary. Maryland Administrative Law, Second Edition also thoroughly discusses agency rulemaking, the process of proposing regular and emergency regulations, and the judicial review of the validity of regulations via petitions for declaratory judgment and petitions for declaratory ruling. The extensive appendices in Maryland Administrative Law, Second Edition continue to provide readers with immediate reference to primary sources of Maryland administrative law.

The new Second Edition’s reference tables - with citations to 324 cases and 486 authorities – and its useful index are especially helpful to newer practitioners. For more experienced practitioners, Professor Rochvarg tackles the hard topics: areas where the case law is inconsistent and conflicted and areas where the policy choices behind the law can be questioned. This breadth of coverage, from black-letter to in-depth, is what makes Maryland Administrative Law, Second Edition indispensable. No lawyer should set foot in an administrative adjudicatory or judicial review proceeding without first consulting Maryland Administrative Law, Second Edition.

$99

Inv. #2297-07
Pub date: January 2007

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