Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Landis knew how to make human organizations work.1 His successes James ranged from establishing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to deaning Harvard Law School to reviving Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to stabilizing our wartime relations in Middle East. At Harvard, he was a popular and innovative dean for whom school made every accommodation in order to keep him.2 At OCD, he was credited with cleaning up the worst of all Washington's administrative messes.3 Of his work at SEC, his successor as chair, William Douglas, said Jim . . . taught us how to get things done.4 In 1938, he took great care in prestigious Yale Storrs Lectures over working of administrative process. These lectures justified resort to that process and demonstrated its potential for solving problems of modern government. Fittingly, when it was published, it was titled simply The Administrative Process.
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W20463569