ABSTRACT
The main branch of administrative law is quasi-judicial activity, or, referred as, adjudication. Adjudication occurs when the statute on which the agency is proceeding requires that the agency grant a permit, license, permission, or other formal activity, “on the record after opportunity for a hearing.” The administrative law judge (ALJ) serves not really as a judge, but more as a person who is administering the hearing. The ALJ makes rulings on points of evidence and determines what is admissible into the record, but does not have the power, for example, to put people in jail for contempt. Whatever action the administrator or commission takes is published in the Federal Register as presenting the final decision of the agency. It is this final decision, as published in the Federal Register, that is then subject to judicial review by a court. One of the classic examples of administrative law is the regulation and licensing of the professions by the states.
