RICHARD STEWART'S PERENNIAL QUESTION: "HOW'S THIS GOING TO WORK?".

The members of this panel were asked to assess Richard Stewart's contributions to administrative law, but my knowledge of that field is too fragmentary to capture the totality of his sweeping impact. I will instead focus on only a minor part of it, but in a way that, I hope, sheds light on why his overall impact has been so great. That minor part is his effect on one lesser scholar, me. Showing why he had such a huge impact on my work over the decades will suggest why he has enriched the work of so many around him and has thereby improved the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]