LAWS 2502 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Legal Positivism, Antipositivism, Legal Realism
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Administrative law is the law that relates to administrative process the administrative process includes those bodies that exercise statutory, prerogative, or other governmental power on behalf of the state. Administrative law usually operates at a more specific, day-to-day level than constitutional law, which deals with the ground rules of government and society. The state will be defined as the institution that exercises sovereign power. Administrative law has 2 sides, one concerned with doing the jobs of government efficiently, and the other with doing them fairly. Administrative law is coloured by the values of those who describe it; some possible theoretical approaches and appears to act on behalf of the (cid:498)public(cid:499) it will be equated roughly with. The first is the (cid:498)positive(cid:499) side, concerned with the performance of. The second is the (cid:498)negative(cid:499) or control side, concerned to ensure that. A person"s view of the balance between fairness and efficiency may be.
