Thomas W. Merrill

A leading expert on the administrative state describes the past, present, and future of the immensely consequential—and equally controversial—legal doctrine that has come to define how Congress's laws are applied by the executive branch. The Constitution makes Congress the principal federal lawmaker. But for a variety of reasons, including partisan gridlock, Congress increasingly fails to keep up with the challenges...

Wise and illuminating… Merrill's treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful. -Cass R. Sunstein, New York Review of Books Merrill is one of the brightest and best scholars of administrative law in his generation. This book...is must-reading for any citizen who has an interest in the constitutionality of the...