The Bremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946

Authors

Emily S. Bremer, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow
Kathryn E. Kovacs
Charlotte D. Schneider

Files

Description

The Bremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 is a comprehensive database designed to make the APA’s history more accessible and understandable. The Collection begins in 1929 with the APA’s first predecessors: bills to regulate administrative procedure that were introduced in Congress but never enacted. The database’s coverage expands in 1933, tracking heightened interest in administrative reform following President Roosevelt’s first inauguration and spurred on by the New Deal expansion of the federal administrative apparatus. The database includes a comprehensive legislative history of the Walter-Logan Bill of 1940, which Congress approved but President Roosevelt vetoed, as well as later bills that culminated in the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA).

Works within this database include:

1. congressional hearings held on proposed legislation
2. treatises written by the men involved in the issue of administrative reform
3. reports on administrative agencies
4. textbooks written after the APA’s passage

Publication Date

2021

Publisher

HeinOnline

Keywords

Administrative Procedure Act of 1946

Disciplines

Administrative Law | Law

Comments

WINNER OF THE 2022 JOSEPH L. ANDREWS LEGAL LITERATURE AWARD

Recommended Citation

Bremer, Emily S.; Kovacs, Kathryn E.; and Schneider, Charlotte D., "The Bremer-Kovacs Collection: Historic Documents Related to the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946" (2021). Books. 435.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_books/435