During the past decade, administrative law has experienced remarkable development. It has consistently been one of the most dynamic and potent areas of legal innovation and of judicial activism. It has expanded its reach into an ever broadening sphere of public and private activities. Largely through the mechanism of judicial review, the judges in several jurisdictions have extended the ambit of the traditional remedies, partly in response to a perceived need to fill an accountability vacuum created by the privatisation of public enterprises, the contracting-out of public services, and the deregulation of industry and commerce. The essays in this volume focus upon these and other shifts in administrative law, and in doing so they draw upon the experiences of several jurisdictions: the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The result is a wide-ranging and forceful analysis of the scope, development and future direction of administrative law.

1. The Province of Administrative Law Determined?
Michael Taggart

2. Constitutionalism and the Contractualisation of Government
Murray Hunt

3. A Public Lawyer's Responses to Privatisation and Outsourcing
Mark Aronson

4. Theoretical and Institutional Underpinnings of a Separate Administrative Law
John W.F. Allison

5. Administrative Law for a New Century
Alfred C. Aman, Jr.

6. Public Service Law and the New Public Management
H. Wade MacLauchlan

7. Administrative Law at the Margins
David Mullan

8. Intermediate Associations and the State
Janet McLean

9. The Reach of Administrative Law in the United States
Jack M. Beermann

10. Public Law and Control Over Private Power
Paul Craig

11. The Underlying Values of Public and Private Law
Dawn Oliver

12. Criminal Justice from the Bottom-Up: Some Thoughts on Police Rulemaking Processes
Hudson Janisch and Ron Levi

13. The Politics of Deference: Judicial Review and Democracy
David Dyzenhaus

14, The “Ebb” and “Flow” of Administrative Law on the “General Question of Law”
Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé

15. Feminism, Pluralism and Administrative Law
Alison Harvison Young

“...this collection broadens and deepens the debate about the scope of administrative law. It is thoroughly recommended.” –  Ivan Hare, Cambridge Law Journal

“...the book deserves to be a standard point of reference for many years to come.” –  Nicholas Bamforth, Modern Law Review

“…a must for anyone studying either the common law perspective of law, or those comparing the common law system with that of the continental system.” –  A. Mantzoros, European Review of Public Law

“...a weighty contribution to the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the role and substance of administrative law in the context of rapidly shifting notions of public power.” –  Hugh Corder, University of Cape Town, University of Toronto Law Journal