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Title:Administrative law of the European Union, its member states and the United States : a comparative analysis / editor, René Seerden.

Other Contributors/Collections:Seerden, René, 1962-
Maastrichts Europees Instituut voor Transnationaal Rechtswetenschappelijk Onderzoek.

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Call Number: K3400 .A935 2012
Number of Items:1
Status:Available

Library of Congress Subjects:Administrative law--European Union countries.
Administrative law--United States.

Edition:3rd ed.

Description:xxiv, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:Ius commune europaeum ; 109.

Notes:Previous ed.: 2007.
At foot of t.p.: METRO.
Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:9781780681092 (pbk.)
1780681097 (pbk.)

Contents:Machine generated contents note: Administrative Law in France / Lucie Cluzel-Metayer
1. Definition and Scope of Administrative Law
1.1. Historical Background
1.2. Scope of Administrative Law. Matters submitted to Administrative Law
2. Legal Design of the Administration
2.1. Public Legal Persons and Public Organs
2.2. Legal Arrangement of the State
2.3. Local Government
3. Substance of Administrative Powers. Administrative Acts
3.1. Public Powers
3.1.1. Enforcement
3.2. Administrative Contracts
4. Administrative Norms. Administrative Legality
4.1. Hierarchy of Norms
4.2. Constitutional Rules
4.3. International Rules
4.4. Legality
5. Administrative Litigation. Protection of the Citizens against the Administration
5.1. Organization of the Courts
5.2. Jurisdiction of Administrative Courts
5.3. Standing
5.4. Grounds of Review
5.5. Administrative Liability
5.6. Costs
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Websites
Administrative Law in Germany / Meinhard Schroder
1. Introduction
1.1. Concept of Administration
1.2. Administration under the Governance of Constitutional Law
1.3. Influence of the Law of the European Union
1.4. General Administrative Law vs Specific Areas of Administrative Law
1.5. Public Law vs Private Law
1.6. Sources of Law
1.7. Fundamentals of Administrative Law
2. Administrative Organization
2.1. General Structure of Federal Administration (Bundesverwaltung)
2.2. General Structure of the Administration of the States (Landesverwaltungen)
2.3. Administration on Behalf of the Federation (Bundesauftragsverwaltung)
2.4. Joint Tasks (Gemeinschaftsaufgaben/Verwaltungszusammenarbeit)
2.5. Municipal Administration (Selbstverwaltung)
3. Forms of Action of the Public Administration
3.1. Administrative Act (Verwaltungsakt)
3.1.1. According to the Subject-Matter
3.1.2. According to the Consequences
3.1.3. According to the Legal Limits on the Administrator
3.2. Statutory Order (Rechtsverordnung)
3.3. By-law (Satzung)
3.4. Guidance (Einzelweisung)
3.5. Administrative Regulation (Verwaltungsvorschrift)
3.6. Administrative Planning (Plan)
3.7. Real Act or Simple Sovereign Action (Realakt/schlichtes Verwaltungshandeln)
3.8. Administrative Contract (Verwaltungsvertrag)
3.9. Administrative Private Law Acts (privatrechtliche Handlungsformen)
4. Administrative Proceedings
4.1. Material and Procedural Rules
4.1.1. Substantive Principles
4.1.1.1. Principle of Legality of the Administration (Gesetzma€igkeit)
4.1.1.2. Equality (Gleichheitsgrundsatz)
4.1.1.3. Principle of Proportionality (Grundsatz der Verhaltnisma€igkeit)
4.1.1.4. Legal Protection for Bona Fide Acts (Vertrauensschutz)
4.1.1.5. Principle of Economy (Grundsatz der Wirtschaftlichkeit)
4.1.2. Procedural Principles
4.2. Informal Procedure
4.2.1. Beginning of the Administrative Procedure
4.2.2. Administrative Progress
4.2.3. Termination of Administrative Proceedings
4.3. Special Administrative Proceedings
4.3.1. Procedures Dealt with by a Single Authority
4.3.2. Formal Procedure (formliches Verfahren)
4.3.3. Planning Procedure (Pianfeststellungsverfahren)
4.3.4. Appeal Procedure (Rechtsbehelfsverfahren)
4.4. Participants and their Rights
4.4.1. Participants
4.4.2. Hearing of the Participants (Anhorungspflicht)
4.4.3. Duty to give Information and Advice (Auskunftsrecht)
4.5. Consequences of a Defective Administrative Procedure
4.5.1. Invalidity (Nullity) of an Administrative Act
4.5.2. Appealability (Voidability) of an Administrative Act
4.5.3. Curing of Defects
4.5.4. Irrelevance of Defects
4.5.5. Re-interpretation (Umdeutung) of an Illegal Administrative Act
5. Basis of Judicial Review in Administrative Matters
5.1. How Intensive is Review by the Courts?
5.2. Overview of the Judicial System and Administrative Courts
5.3. Conditions for Judicial Relief
5.3.1. Scope of Administrative Jurisdiction (Zustandigkeit)
5.3.2. Participants (Beteiligte)
5.3.3. Forms of Suits (statthafte Klageart)
5.3.4. Right of Action (Klagebefugnis)
5.3.5. Objection (Widerspruch)
5.3.6. Time Limit (Frist)
5.3.7. Absence of Sub-Justice (Rechtsschutzbedurfnis)
5.4. Rules Governing Court Procedure
5.5. Court Decisions and Remedies
5.5.1. Court Decisions
5.5.2. Remedies
5.6. Interim Relief
5.7. Costs
6. Enforcement of Administrative Law
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Legal Framework
6.3. Main Principles of Administrative Enforcement
6.3.1. Execution of Money Claims (Beitreibungsverfahren)
6.3.2. Enforcement of Administrative Acts
6.3.2.1. General Premises of Enforcement
6.3.2.2. Proceedings
6.3.2.3. Means of Coercion (Zwangsmittel)
6.3.2.4. Execution by Substitution or Substitute Performance (Ersatzvornahme, [§] 10 VwVG)
6.3.2.5. Penalty Payment (Zwangsgeld, [§] 11 VwVG)
6.3.2.6. Immediate Constraint (Unmittelbarer Zwang, [§] 12 VwVG)
6.4. Legal Protection by Judgement or by Objection
6.5. Interim Relief
7. State Liability and Rights to Compensation
7.1. Sources and Principles
7.2. [§] 839 Burgerliches Gesetzbuch/Article 34 of the Basic Law (Amtshaftung) and its Requirements
7.2.1. Civil Servant (Beamter)
7.2.2. Breach of Official Duty (Amtspflichtverletzung)
7.2.3. Fault (Verschulden)
7.2.4. Damage (Schaden)
7.3. European Law Aspects
7.4. Compensation for Expropriatory Action
7.5. Compensation for Non-pecuniary Infringements
7.6. Other Claims
7.7. Legal Protection
8. Recent and Future Developments
9. Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Websites
Administrative Law in the Netherlands / Danielle Wenders
1. Introduction
1.1. What is Administrative Law?
1.2. General Administrative Law Act (Algemene wet bestuursrecht, Awb)
1.3. (The use of) Administrative Powers
2. Who has Administrative Powers?
2.1. Organs and Legal Persons
2.2. Decentralization versus Deconcentration and Independent Administrative Organs
3. What Instruments are Available to the Administration?
3.1. Actions of Administration (under Public Law)
3.2. Administrative Decisions governed by Public Law (besluiten)
3.2.1. Administrative Decisions in Individual Cases (beschikkingen)
3.2.1.1. Individual Decisions on Application and Ex Officio Decisions in Individual Cases
3.2.1.2. Individualized Decisions addressed at One or Several Persons and Decisions Relating to Objects
3.2.1.3. Decisions in Personam and Decisions in Rem
3.2.1.4. Discretionary and Mandatory Decisions
3.2.1.5. Decisions Granting Rights and Posing Obligations
3.2.1.6. Perpetual and Temporary Decisions
3.2.2. Administrative Decisions of General Application (besluiten van algemene strekking)
3.2.3. Administrative Actions and (possible) Appeal to the Administrative Court
3.2.4. Resume
3.3. Use of Private Law by the Administration
4. What are the Norms with which the Administration has to comply?
4.1. Introduction: Hierarchy of Norms
4.2. Principles of Proper Administration (algemene beginselen van behoorlijk bestuur, ABBB)
4.2.1. Due Care
4.2.2. Prohibition of Bias
4.2.3. Specificity and detournement de pouvoir
4.2.4. Prohibition of Arbitrariness
4.2.5. Proportionality
4.2.6. Reasoning
4.2.7. Good Faith, Legal Certainty and Equality
4.2.7.1. Good Faith
4.2.7.2. Legal Certainty
4.2.7.3. Equality
4.2.8. Procedures of Decision-Making
4.2.8.1. Failure to take a Decision
4.2.8.2. Decision on Objection
5. Legal Protection against Administrative Action
5.1.1. Towards Enactment of the Awb
5.1.2. Enactment of the Awb
5.2. Administrative Proceedings
5.3. Access to the Courts
5.3.1. Present Court System
5.3.2. Appeal to the District Court
5.3.2.1. Right to Appeal
5.3.2.2. Interested Parties
5.3.2.3. Schutznorm
5.3.2.4. Exhausting Administrative Remedies and the Scope of the Dispute
5.3.3. Proceedings at the District Court
5.3.3.1. Principles of Due Process
5.3.3.2. Scope and Grounds of Review
5.3.3.3. Review of Discretionary Power
5.3.3.4. Recours Subjectif and/or Objectif
5.3.3.5. Recent Developments
5.3.4. Judicial Dispute-Settlement Powers
5.3.4.1. Remedies
5.3.4.2. Additional Remedies
5.3.4.3. Judicial Dispute-Settlement Powers during the Procedure
5.3.4.4. Recent Developments and Sequence of Remedies
5.3.4.5. Damages
5.3.4.6. Costs
5.3.5. Right to Provisional Ruling (Interim Relief)
5.3.6. Complaints at the (National) Ombudsman
6. Enforcement of Administrative Law
6.1. Administrative Law Enforcement
6.2. Civil Law Enforcement
6.3. Penal Law Enforcement
6.4. Criminal Enforcement by Administrative Authorities
7. Compensation for (Un)lawful Actions of the Administration (Financial Liability)
7.1. Compensation for Unlawful Actions of the Administration
7.2. Compensation for Lawful Actions of the Administration
7.3. Liability Procedures in the Near Future
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Websites
Annex: Key provisions General Administrative Law Act (Algemene wet bestuursrecht)
Administrative Law in the United Kingdom / Brian Jones
1. Introduction
Contents note continued: 1.1. What is Administrative Law?
1.2. Constitutional Context
1.2.1. Terminology
1.2.2. Supremacy of Parliament
1.2.3. Human Rights Act 1998
1.2.4. Supremacy and the EU
1.2.5. Separation of Powers
1.2.6. `Rule of Law'
1.2.7. Royal Prerogative
2. Distribution of Administrative Powers
2.1. Institutions of Government
3. How are Administrative Decisions made?
3.1. Sources of Power
3.1.1. Parliamentary Legislation
3.1.2. Delegated Legislation
3.2. Inquiries
3.3. Inspections
3.4. Licensing
3.5. Public Participatio and Open Government
3.6. Use of Private Law by the Administration
3.6.1. Contractual Powers
3.6.2. Enforcement of Standards
4. Non judicial Redress of Grievances
4.1. Ombudsmen
4.2. Tribunals
5. Judicial Review
5.1. General Points
5.2. Filing a Claim for Judicial Review
5.3. Remedies in Judicial Review
5.4. Standing
5.5. Public/Private Divide
5.6. Exceptions to `Procedural Exclusivity'
5.7. Matters which are not Reviewable
5.8. Legitimate Expectations
5.9. Grounds for Judicial Review
5.9.1. Illegality
5.9.2. Irrationality
5.9.3. Procedural Impropriety
6. Liability of Public Authorities
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Annex: Civil Procedure Rules Part 54
European Administrative Law / Rob Widdershoven
1. Introduction
1.1. What is European Administrative Law?
1.2. Leading Principles of the European Legal Order
1.2.1. Principle of Supremacy
1.2.2. Principle of Sincere Cooperation
1.2.3. Principle of Subsidiarity
1.3. European Constraints on National Administrative Law: Equivalence and Effectiveness
1.4. Use of Administrative Powers in the European Legal Order
1.4.1. Union Level
1.4.2. National Level
2. Who has Administrative Powers?
2.1. Administrative Powers in the European Union
2.2. National Administrative Powers in the European Legal Order
3. What Instruments are Available in the Administration?
3.1. Legal Instruments at the EU Level
3.1.1. Treaties
3.1.2. Regulations
3.1.3. Directives
3.1.4. Decisions
3.1.5. Union Soft Law Instruments
3.2. Legal Instruments at the National Level
3.3. Direct and Indirect Effect of Union Law
3.3.1. Direct Effect
3.3.2. Indirect Effect or Consistent Interpretation
4. How is European Administrative Law Enforced?
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Judge-made Rules for National Enforcement of EU Law
4.3. Legislative Measures Concerning National Enforcement of Union Law
5. What are the Norms with which the Administration has to Comply?
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Fundamental Rights
5.3. General Principles of Union Law: General Aspects
5.4. Proportionality
5.5. Equality
5.6. Rights of Defence
5.7. Principle of Legitimate Expectations
5.8. Other General Principles of Union Law
6. What Legal Protection is there against Administrative Action?
6.1. Effective Judicial Protection against Shared Government
6.2. Remedies at the Union Level
6.2.1. Court of Justice and the General Court
6.2.2. Review of Legality
6.2.2.1. General aspects
6.2.2.2. Object of review
6.2.2.3. Standing
6.2.2.4. Judicial Assessment
6.2.2.5. Interim Relief
6.2.2.6. Interference with Remedies at the National Level
6.3. Remedies at the National Level
6.3.1. Preliminary Rulings
6.3.1.1. Introduction
6.3.1.2. Discretion or Obligation to refer to the ECJ
6.3.1.3. Procedural Aspects
6.3.2. Effective Judicial Protection in the Member States
6.3.2.1. Access to Court
6.3.2.2. Interim Relief
6.3.3. Application of National Procedural Law in Union Matters
6.3.3.1. General
6.3.3.2. Fatal Time Limits and Principle of Res Iudicata
6.3.3.3. Ex Officio Application of Union and the Prohibition of Reformatio in Pejus
6.3.3.4. Judicial Scrutiny and Evidence
6.3.3.5. Review of Administrative Decisions
7. Non-contractual Liability
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Non-contractual Liability of the Union
7.3. Member State Liability
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Websites
Annex: Key Provisions. Treaty on the European Union
Administrative Law in the United States / Philip Harter
1. What is Administrative Law in the United States?
1.1. What is Administrative Law?
1.2. Role of Agencies
1.3. Brief History of Administrative Law
2. Constitutional Structure
2.1. Congress
2.2. President
2.3. Courts
2.4. Separation of Powers Generally
3. American Administrative Process
3.1. Acquisition of Information
3.2. Open Government
3.3. Freedom of Information Act
3.4. Adjudication versus Rulemaking
3.5. Rulemaking
3.6. Non-Legislative Rules, Policy Statements, and Guidelines
3.7. Adjudication under the APA
3.8. Agency Discretion in Rulemaking and Adjudication
3.8.1. Choice of Process
3.8.2. Relationship of Rules to Adjudication
3.9. Alternative Dispute Resolution
3.10. Due Process and Informal Adjudication
4. Judicial Review of Administrative Action
4.1. Availability of Judicial Review
4.2. Standing
4.3. Timing of Judicial Review
4.3.1. Ripeness
4.3.2. Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
4.3.3. Finality
4.3.4. Appeal
4.3.5. Scope of Review
4.3.6. Review of the Facts
4.3.7. Review of Law and Policy
5. Non-judicial Means of Accountability
5.1. Oversight Hearings
5.2. `Ombuds'
5.2.1. Government Accountability Office
5.2.2. Congressional `Casework'
5.2.3. Inspectors General
5.2.4. Programmatic Ombuds
5.3. White House
6. Means of Enforcement
6.1. Remedial Action
6.2. Monetary Penalties
6.3. Criminal Sanctions
6.4. Contracts: Getting More by Requiring Less
6.5. Common Law
7. Role of Private Parties in Forcing and Enforcing Government Duties
7.1. Adoption of Rules
7.2. Raising Issues in Adjudicatory Proceedings
7.3. Forcing an Enforcement Action
7.4. Citizen Suits to Enforce Regulatory Compliance
7.5. Suits for Damages Against Officials
7.6. Regulatory Takings
8. Review and Prognosis
Bibliography
Comparative Remarks / Rene Seerden
1. Introduction
2. Comparative Remarks
2.1. Administrative Law
2.2. Administration
2.3. Legal Instruments
2.4. Rules and Principles
2.5. Access to Court and (Prior) Out-of-Court Proceedings
2.6. Enforcement by the Administration
2.7. Financial Liability of the Administration.

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