Book Review: The Judicial Control of Public Authorities in England and Italy: A Comparative Study
| Author | C. B. Bourne |
| Date | 01 September 1956 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205601100311 |
| Published date | 01 September 1956 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
227
and
overall
view
this
work
achieves.
The
missionary,
teacher,
and
official
will
be
grateful
for
the
comprehensive
treatment
of
items
like
nationalist
movements,
production
and exchange,
prop-
erty,
organization,
land,
labour,
capital,
changes
in
Melanesian
values,
emergence
of
new
goals;
all seen
as
in
part
produced
by
and
at
the
same
time causing
Melanesian
cultural
change.
To
the
administration
and
others
a
special
chapter
is
addressed;
the
author
spells
out
some
of
the
implications
of
his
analysis
bearing
on
the
responsibility
of
maintaining
and
furthering
Melanesian
welfare.
A
section
on
social
change
theory
has
considerable
interest,
though,
as
chapters
on
theory
perhaps
should
do,
it
concludes
just
where
it
is
about
to
become
most
interesting-in
the
setting
up of
a
concept
of
social
efficiency
by
which
change
can
be
assessed.
University
of
British
Columbia
H.
B.
HAWTHORNE
THE
JUDICIAL
CONTROL
OF
PUBLIC
AUTHORITIES
IN
ENGLAND
AND
ITALY:
A
COMPARATIVE STUDY.
By
S.
Galeotti.
1954.
(London:
Stevens;
Toronto:
Carswell.
xi,
253pp.)
Anglo-American
lawyers
interested
in
comparative
adminis-
trative
law
have
followed
the
example of
Dicey
and
have
con-
centrated
on
French
law.
No
one
seems
to
have
cared
about
dis-
covering
anything
about
Italian
administrative
law.
But
now
Dr.
Galeotti,
an
Italian
scholar
who
spent
two
years
at
Oxford,
has
written
the
first
(as
far
as
I
know)
account
in
English
of
Italian
administrative
law.
His
book
is
confined
to
a
detailed
comparative
study
of
only
one
aspect
of
English
and
Italian
law,
namely
the
judicial
control
of
public
authorities.
The
high
quality
of
this
branch
of
Italian
law
becomes
ap-
parent
when
it
is
set
side
by
side
with
the
English
law,
as
the
author
does
in
an
admirable
way.
In
some
particulars,
English
law
seems
better
than
Italian;
but
the
general
conclusion
is
that
"the
Italian
system
of
judicial control
is
far
more
systematic,
mature
and
effective
than
the
English
system."
After
reading
this
book, one
is
inclined
to
agree
with
this
conclusion.
This
book
has
short-comings:
it
is
repetitious;
its
language
sometimes is
obscure;
it
tends
to
be
general
and
descriptive;
and
it
has
no
index
and
no
table
of
cases.
In
substance,
however,
it
is
an
excellent
study
of an
important
problem.
University
of
British
Columbia
C.
B.
BOURNE
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