The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law
Oxford Handbooks Series

The comparative study of administrative law has a long history dating back more than 200 years. It has enjoyed a renaissance in the past 15 years or so and now sits alongside fields such as comparative constitutional law and global administrative law as a well-established area of scholarly research. This book is the first to provide a broad and systematic view of the subject both in terms of the topics covered and the legal traditions surveyed. In its various parts it surveys the historical beginnings of comparative administrative law scholarship, discusses important methodological issues, examines the relationship between administrative law and regime type, analyses basic concepts such as 'administrative power' and 'accountability', and deals with the creation, functions, and control of administrative power, and values of administration. The final part looks to the future of this young sub-discipline. In this volume, distinguished experts and leaders in the field discuss a wide range of issues in administrative law from a comparative perspective. Administrative law is concerned with the conferral, nature, exercise, and legal control of administrative (or 'executive') governmental power. It has close links with other areas of 'public law', notably constitutional law and international law. It is of great interest and importance not only to lawyers but also to students of politics, government, and public policy. Studying public law comparatively helps to identify both similarities and differences between the way government power and its control is managed in different countries and legal traditions.

Peter Cane divided his academic career between Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford (1978-1997) and The Australian National University (1997-2016), where he held the posts of Professor and Distinguished Professor of Law. In 'retirement' he is a Senior Research Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge (where his wife, Jane Stapleton, is Master) and Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Cambridge University Law Faculty. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and author of books including Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison. Herwig C.H. Hofmann is Professor of European and Transnational Public Law and head of the University of Luxembourg's Law Department. He was formerly a Lecturer in Law at Trinity College Dublin and has held visiting positions at institutions in Europe, the US, and Asia. He is the author and co-author of books in the field of EU and comparative public law. Recent volumes include: Administrative Law and Politics of the European Union, Metamorphosis of the European Economic Constitution, Specialised Administrative Law of the European Union, and State Aid Law of the European Union. Hofmann is one of the coordinators of the Research Network on European Administrative Law (ReNEUAL) and one of the co-authors of the ReNEUAL Model Rules on EU Administrative Procedure. Eric C. Ip is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law. He is the author of Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Politics of Constitutional Review in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions, and Law and Justice in Hong Kong. Prior to joining HKU, he taught at University College London and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he served as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law. Peter L. Lindseth is the Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he is also Director of Internation