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Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS: Administrative Law

Course Title:	LS346 - Administrative Law
Department:	Legal Studies
Instructor:	Dr. Deryl Gulliford - E-Mail | Personal E-Mail |  Vita
Phone (office BlackBerry®):	(580) 574-6831
Phone (home):	(405) 219-6227
Pager:	(877) 724-5711, PIN 5539
Address:	118 Gardenwood Dr, Holdenville, OK 74848-9528

Course Description:

This course focuses on administrative law with an eye toward accountability and preventing abuse. We provide basic, overall knowledge of administrative agencies and the laws governing their conduct. Emphasis is on illustrating major principles with good case examples. The goal is to provide students with a solid understanding of principles and practices in administrative law, and to prepare them for effective legal and/or administrative practice.

Required Text: Online Bookstore

Administrative Law – 2nd Edition – Daniel E. Hall - Published May, 2001. Prentice Hall Professional.
ISBN #: 0130909696

Course Format:

This course is divided into four units, covering text chapters as follows:

Unit 1 – Chapters 1-3
Unit 2 – Chapters 4-6
Unit 3 – Chapters 7-9
Unit 4 – Chapters 10-12

Communication with Instructor:

Students are expected to communicate with the professor weekly during the course term. A brief email update is sufficient, although the professor will be please to discuss any matter by phone during the work day or during the evening hours at home.

Evaluation:

There is a written essay examination for each Unit, and a Scholarly Paper (approximately 10 pages in length) is required for completion of the course. The Scholarly Paper topic and outline must be approved prior to writing. There is no final examination for this course. Grade Weighting:

Each Unit Exam is worth 20% of the course grade, and the Scholarly Paper is worth 20% of the course grade.

Course Topics:

Students should expect to study the following topics in the process of completing this course:

• Bureaucracy and Democracy
  
  
• Agency Discretion
  
  
• Requirement of Fairness
  
  
• Delegation
  
  
• Agency Rulemaking
  
  
• Agency Investigations/Information Collection
  
  
• Agency Adjudications
  
  
• Accountability through Reviewability
  
  
• Accountability through Accessibility
  
  
• Accountability through Liability
  
  
• Researching Administrative Law Issues
  
  
• Constitution of the United States
  
  
• Administrative Procedure Act
  
  
• Executive Order

About the Professor:

Dr. Gulliford MHA, PhD, JD is CEO of Stevens County Hospital in Hugoton, Kansas. He has fifteen years of experience in senior healthcare management, and utilizes daily the principles of administrative law.

His clinical background includes work in respiratory care, critical care medicine, non-invasive and invasive cardiology, and cardiovascular perfusion.

Dr. Gulliford is Vice-President of Pioneer Health Network, a group of 18 Kansas and Oklahoma hospitals, and Vice-President of the Kansas Hospital Association Southwest District. He was recently elected to Chair the newly formed Small and Rural Hospitals Division of the American Academy of Medical Administrators.



Dr. Gulliford’s philosophy:

………therefore however you want people to treat you, so treat them.