The third edition of this highly respected textbook introduces students of public administration to the practical issues of administrative law. While useful to law school students, it is most relevant to public management students. The presentation provides a concise foundation to the history and theory of administrative law, rule making, and judicial decisions. The most important issues in administrative law are included--meaningful issues for present and future administrators. A larger number of recent cases and other up-to-date information will be found in the book in order to make the student aware of the kinds of legal problems likely to be encountered in public agencies. One or two cases illustrate each problem at hand, rather than discussing numerous arcane court decisions and technicalities of legal procedure, in order to sketch the broad contours of the present law.

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"Supposing that an Englishman felt himself hurt by the illegal action of a government official, what could he do? Could he challenge the official action in court with a view to stopping it or obtaining redress for his wrong? Could this be done promptly and easily? In the years 1600-1750, two new legal remedies - new modes of proceeding in the courts - were developed which gave the aggrieved subject quicker and easier relief from illegal action by officials", Miss Henderson writes. These two new remedies, the writs of mandamus and certiorari, are the basis for modern Anglo-American administrative law. Miss Henderson traces the development of mandamus and certiorari in England in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She gives us first a picture of the structure of local government, both in country and town, pointing out the areas where injustice might occur because of the citizen's inability to hold the local officials accountable. She describes in detail the development of the doctrine of limited judicial review, which was partly implicit in the older remedy of prohibition and common-law suits, and was made explicit in the new remedies of mandamus and certiorari.

A detailed analysis of the foundations and challenges of UK, EU and global administrative law.