This paper highlights the role of administrative agencies in developing norms of administrative law. Administrative agencies are not just recipients of legal norms; they are important, sophisticated actors that can and do create norms later accepted and adopted by other actors. This can be seen...

In a world where states increasingly cooperate on a range of pressing issues (eg immigration, cybercrime, international corruption, etc.) relying heavily on administrative cooperation, comparative administrative law becomes crucial for lawyers to analyse, assess or challenge administrative...

This is a book which combines a high quality of academic research with practical insights into the system. It is an essential addition to the library of any lawyer, and an important reference work for administrators, political scientists, and indeed, any serious researcher in the area. There is...

Administrative law judges are neglected but powerful actors in public welfare bureaucracies, presiding over quasi-judicial hearings triggered if participants challenge a bureaucratic decision on public welfare benefits. Drawing on ethnographic observations of fair hearings as well as interviews...

This review of developments in New Zealand administrative law covers the period from mid 2016 to mid 2019. The developments I have selected for discussion concern Bill of Rights methodology; heightened scrutiny reasonableness review; substantive legitimate expectations; a duty of consistency;...

How do regulatory agencies decide how strictly to regulate an industry? They sometimes use cost-benefit analysis or claim to, but more often the standards they invoke are so vague as to be meaningless. This raises the question whether the agencies use an implicit standard or instead regulate in...