Professor Gary Lawson posits that the issue of deference is not relevant only in administrative or even law generally. Anytime there is a decision to be made by any type of organization, people have to consider whether to incorporate or defer to previous decisions. When courts have to consider previous administrative agency decisions, there is nothing unique about that part of the decisionmaking process.

Professor Gary Lawson is the Philip S. Beck Professor at Boston University School of Law.

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