Todd D. Rakoff

Byrne Professor of Administrative Law

Research Interests

• Administrative Law
• Contracts
• Structure of the Legal System

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Administrative Law
• Contracts

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Administrative Law/Government Agencies
• Contracts

Education

• Harvard University B.A. 1967, Social Studies
• Oxford University B.Phil. 1969, Political Philosophy
• University of Pennsylvania M.S.Ed. 1971, Urban Education
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1975

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1979
• Professor of Law, 1983
• Associate Dean, 1993-98
• Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, 1996
• Dean of the J.D. Program, 2000
• Vice Dean for Academic Programming, 2003-2005

Representative Publications

• Rakoff, Todd D., Clark Byse, Walter Gellhorn, Peter L. Strauss & Roy A. Schotland. Administrative Law: Cases and Comments (Foundation Press 10th ed. 2003).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (8th edition in 1987, Supplements in 1989 and 1993)
  
• Rakoff, Todd D. A Time For Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life (Harvard University Press 2002).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Rakoff, Todd D. "Fuller and Perdue," 1991 Wisconsin Law Review 203 (1991).
  
• Rakoff, Todd D. "Brock v. Roadway Express, Inc., and the New Law of Regulatory Due Process," 1987 The Supreme Court Review 157 (1988).
  
• Rakoff, Todd D. "Contracts of Adhesion: An Essay in Reconstruction," 96 Harvard Law Review 1173 (1983).
  (Trans: Contratos de adhesion: una reconstruccion teorica, 37 Revista de Dereche Privado 57 (2006) (Colombia))
  

Bibliography

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