Introduction

AuthorMatthew Groves
DOI10.22145/flr.45.4.2
Published date01 December 2017
Date01 December 2017
/tmp/tmp-17G3o1hw3ZRER7/input INTRODUCTION
Matthew Groves
One of the many works of the American public law scholar KC Davis was his text
Administrative Law and Government. The purpose of that book, which was the seventh
Davis published in a single decade, was to foster the ‘liberal education’ of political
science students. Davis explained his book was not designed to convert political
scientists into lawyers. Its more modest aim was to help those students understand how
law regulated public life and why administrative law had begun to grow relentlessly.
Davis identified a simple functional reason for that growth. Administrative law was an
essential oil in the machinery of modern governance. He explained:
Anyone who probes below the surface of administrative law soon encounters some of the
most basic problems of organized society—how to resolve controversies, how to discover
what is justice, how to make decisions in concrete cases outside the legislative branch of
government, how to...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT