Louis Jaffe
Louis Jaffe · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Foundational scholar of American administrative law and judicial review of agency action
1905, Seattle, United States — 1996, Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Jaffe (Louis Leventhal Jaffe) was a foundational American scholar of administrative law at Harvard Law School, whose Judicial Control of Administrative Action (1965) became the standard treatise on how courts review government agencies. Born in Seattle to a Jewish immigrant family, he clerked for Justices Brandeis and, later, taught for decades at Harvard.
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Foundational scholar of American administrative law and judicial review of agency action
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence
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