The Province of Administrative Law

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Michael Taggart
Hart Publishing, Jun 19, 1997 - Law - 381 pages
During the past decade, administrative law has experienced remarkable development. It has consistently been one of the most dynamic and potent areas of legal innovation and of judicial activism. It has expanded its reach into an ever broadening sphere of public and private activities. Largely through the mechanism of judicial review, the judges in several jurisdictions have extended the ambit of the traditional remedies, partly in response to a perceived need to fill an accountability vacuum created by the privatisation of public enterprises, the contracting-out of public services, and the deregulation of industry and commerce. The essays in this volume focus upon these and other shifts in administrative law, and in doing so they draw upon the experiences of several jurisdictions: the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The result is a wide-ranging and forceful analysis of the scope, development and future direction of administrative law.
 

Contents

1 The Province of Administrative Law Determined?
1
2 Constitutionalism and the Contractualisation of Government
21
3 A Public Lawyers Responses to Privatisation and Outsourcing
40
4 Theoretical and Institutional Underpinnings of a Separate Administrative Law
71
5 Administrative Law for a New Century
90
6 Public Service Law and the New Public Management
118
7 Administrative Law at the Margins
134
8 Intermediate Associations and the State
160
10 Public Law and Control Over Private Power
196
11 The Underlying Values of Public and Private Law
217
Some Thoughts on Police Rulemaking Processes
243
Judicial Review and Democracy
279
14 The Ebb and Flow of Administrative Law on the General Question of Law
308
15 Feminism Pluralism and Administrative Law
331
Bibliography
357
Index
375

9 The Reach of Administrative Law in the United States
171

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About the author (1997)

Mike Taggart is Alexander Turner Professor of Law at the University of Auckland.

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