Administartive law

This is the second volume of essays on administrative law in this series. "The first volume' (as I shall refer to it in this Introduction), edited by Denis Galligan, was published in 1992. The essays it contained were organized under five broad headings - General Theory, Modes of Administration, Discretionary Powers, Judicial Review and Procedural Fairness. Some of the essays in this volume pursue themes raised by essays in the first volume, while others deal with topics not covered in the earlier collection. The intention is that the two volumes should complement one another. Most of the questions discussed by authors whose writing appears in the first volume are as topical and important now as they were in 1992 and, indeed, when the essays were first written. One of the purposes of this Introduction is to point out links between the essays in the two volumes. The secondary literature of administrative law makes up a huge body of material, and it is growing at an ever-increasing rate. The selection of essays contained herein cannot be said to be comprehensive or even, perhaps, representative, of the breadth and depth of scholarship in administrative law available today. For one thing, the selection has been made exclusively from amongst material written in English. For another, it is the result of a survey only of journals published in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However, subject to these (admittedly significant) constraints, I have attempted to select essays that raise issues which seem to me to be of more than parochial or local interest and concern.