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This dissertation examines the administrative principles found in retired Supreme Court Justice Byron White's administrative law case opinions. The purposes of the dissertation are to explore and identify the dominant themes found in White's administrative law opinions and to discover what public administration can learn from a Supreme Court justice who took more than a passing interest in governance matters.This study has the following research expectations: • There is an identifiable White administrative law jurisprudence; • Within this jurisprudence, there are principles that recognize and are sensitive to the demands of modern governance; and • White's administrative thought can be translated and used by public administrators to guide and instruct their work.The first part of the dissertation is descriptive as the dominant themes in White's administrative law jurisprudence are identified and examined. Standard case briefing analysis is used for this exploration. The second half of the project is normative, wherein Rohr's 'regime values' framework is used to explore what public administrators may learn from studying White's administrative law opinions. Moreover, this section of the dissertation will explore the extent to which White's conception of modern governance incorporates what scholars have referred to as the judicialization of the modern administrative state by the federal courts and what is White's conception of a constitutionally competent civil servant. / Ph. D.

This study examines former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr.'s opinions on the following administrative law topics: civil rights, civil liberties, human resource management, due process, and privacy. The purpose of this examination is (1) to apply Rohr's regime values framework to Brennan's case law, (2) to determine the usefulness of Brennan's regime values to discretionary decision making, and (3) to consider the effectiveness of these regime values as a pedagogical approach to ethics. A purposive sample of 25 cases was selected for the study. Case briefing and discourse analysis were the primary research methods used. I found eight regime values in Brennan's opinions: freedom, accountability, flexibility, equity and equality, unconstitutional conditions, property, and social justice. Social justice was his dominant regime value and is the basis for all of his jurisprudence. Brennan's regime values reconcile two approaches to ethics, the low road and the high road, by emphasizing a Constitutional basis for the latter. Brennan's values may help administrators learn how to think through the important decisions they make daily by providing both a foundation and justification for their choices. Public administrators can be taught how to use the regime values method to extract additional values. / Ph. D.