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This book offers a new framework for understanding contemporary administrative law, through a comparative analysis of case law from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and New Zealand. The author argues that the field is structured by four values: individual self-realisation, good administration, electoral legitimacy and decisional autonomy.
List of contents
- 1: A Values-Based Approach
- 2: Institutional Structures
- 3: Procedural Fairness
- 4: Substantive Review
- 5: Remedies
- 6: Restrictions on Remedies
- 7: Scope of Judicial Review of Administrative Action
- 8: Legitimate Expectation
- 9: Defending Administrative Law
About the author
Dr Paul Daly holds the University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance at the University of Ottawa. Educated at University College Cork, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Cambridge, he has taught administrative law as a faculty member at the University of Cambridge, the Université de Montréal, and the University of Ottawa, and as a visiting professor at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. His award-winning scholarship has been cited dozens of times by courts in Australia, Canada, and Ireland. He is a regular speaker at national and international academic conferences, as well as professional development events, including for members of the judiciary.
Summary
This book offers a new framework for understanding contemporary administrative law, through a comparative analysis of case law from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and New Zealand. The author argues that the field is structured by four values: individual self-realisation, good administration, electoral legitimacy and decisional autonomy.
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This book is a worthwhile exploration of the values that should permeate judicial review of administrative action ... the book provides a framework for understanding the "barnacles on the hull of a shipwreck" that is administrative law.
