We noted a book
symposium at Queen Mary in London for Controlling
Administrative Power: A Comparative History back in Nov.2016, but here is the full announcement. The
book, by Peter Cane (Australian National
University, Canberra), came out in 2016 with Cambridge University Press. From
the publisher:This wide-ranging comparative account of the legal regimes for controlling administrative power in England, the USA and Australia argues that differences and similarities between control regimes may be partly explained by the constitutional structures of the systems of government in which they are embedded. It applies social-scientific and historical methods to the comparative study of law and legal systems in a novel and innovative way, and combines accounts of long-term and large-scale patterns of power distribution with detailed analysis of features of administrative law and the administrative justice systems of three jurisdictions. It also proposes a new method of analysing systems of government based on two different models of the distribution of public power (diffusion and concentration), a model which proves more illuminating than traditional separation-of-powers analysis.
Two blurbs:
"An
important and original contribution to administrative law and comparative
government in a simple and very clear style." -Susan Rose-Ackerman
"Cane's
greatest achievement in this book is his demonstration of extraordinary
'fluency' in the subtleties of the English, US and Australian systems of
administrative law and governance. He is at his absolute best in comparative
legal analysis, informed by a strong sense of the historical development of the
administrative state in each country." -Peter L. Lindseth
Further
information is available here.
