Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer at Yale Law School. He is the author of many award-winning books including Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law (2012), Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims (1983), and Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law (1997). Professor Mashaw has lectured at numerous foreign universities and served as a consultant for US and foreign government agencies and foundations.

'Reacting to the increasing tide of assaults on administrative law's legitimacy, Professor Mashaw, this generation's most distinguished scholar of the subject, finds in the centrality of required reason-giving a compelling response. Like its predecessors in analysis, wisdom and insight, this is a book to treasure.' Peter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law Emeritus, Columbia Law School, New York

• 1. Why reasons; 2. The rise of reason giving; 3. Reasons, reasonableness and accountability in American administrative law: the basic legal framework; 4. Reasonableness, accountability and the control of administrative policy; 5. Reasons, reasonableness and judicial review; 6. Reasons, administration and politics; 7. Reasoned administration and democratic legitimacy; 8. Reason and regret.

Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer at Yale Law School. He is the author of many award-winning books including Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law (2012), Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims (1983), and Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law (1997). Professor Mashaw has lectured at numerous foreign universities and served as a consultant for US and foreign government agencies and foundations.

'Reacting to the increasing tide of assaults on administrative law's legitimacy, Professor Mashaw, this generation's most distinguished scholar of the subject, finds in the centrality of required reason-giving a compelling response. Like its predecessors in analysis, wisdom and insight, this is a book to treasure.' Peter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law Emeritus, Columbia Law School, New York

• 1. Why reasons; 2. The rise of reason giving; 3. Reasons, reasonableness and accountability in American administrative law: the basic legal framework; 4. Reasonableness, accountability and the control of administrative policy; 5. Reasons, reasonableness and judicial review; 6. Reasons, administration and politics; 7. Reasoned administration and democratic legitimacy; 8. Reason and regret.

Jerry L. Mashaw is Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer at Yale Law School. He is the author of many award-winning books including Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law (2012), Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims (1983), and Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law (1997). Professor Mashaw has lectured at numerous foreign universities and served as a consultant for US and foreign government agencies and foundations.

'Reacting to the increasing tide of assaults on administrative law's legitimacy, Professor Mashaw, this generation's most distinguished scholar of the subject, finds in the centrality of required reason-giving a compelling response. Like its predecessors in analysis, wisdom and insight, this is a book to treasure.' Peter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law Emeritus, Columbia Law School, New York

• 1. Why reasons; 2. The rise of reason giving; 3. Reasons, reasonableness and accountability in American administrative law: the basic legal framework; 4. Reasonableness, accountability and the control of administrative policy; 5. Reasons, reasonableness and judicial review; 6. Reasons, administration and politics; 7. Reasoned administration and democratic legitimacy; 8. Reason and regret.