Anyhow, it is always a great honor to be speaking in front of the world's most demanding audience, which is you, on a topic about which I am afraid that I do not count this at least according to recognized standards as an expert. I have spent my entire academic career using the following format: somebody asked me to speak about a subject on which I know nothing, and I easily accept the invitation, weighed in and come up with a series of conclusions which I hope will offend the sort of established wisdom in any particular area. When I started to think about administrative law at the request of the NYU Journal and law and liberty to participate in this symposium, it was a rather interesting setting because I had thought a little bit about this topic but not very deeply or for very long. And I should say, the more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that the conventional complacency with respect to the administrative state is in fact wrong and that there are serious problems in the way in which it deals with the rule of law. Let me sort of begin by telling you a kind of an anecdote about why it is I thought about this. When I was at the Hoover Institution one year, we had a big seminar on land use and the topic of the speech that I gave had the following title, which is whether or not Palo Alto in fact observes the rule of law. When you start thinking about this, in one sense it's obviously absurd to treat this as though it's a tin-pot dictatorship, lawless and reckless in the neighborhood of Hugo Chavez. And that is true because, within certain kinds of interests that we...
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