In the last decade, different strands of anti-administrative approaches have emerged, oriented to disable the administrative state and pointing to the dangers accompanying the expansion and renewal of administrative law. They argue that administrative law is unconstitutional and illiberal. This Dialogue aimed to reflect on the reasons explaining the emergence of such legal scholarship, its basic assumptions, ideology and possible impact on traditional administrative law thinking. It also asked whether anti-administrative thinking may indirectly help to clarify the normative foundations of administrative law and the multiple functions that it serves in contemporary polities.
Speaker: Edoardo Chiti (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Discussants:
- Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law School)
- Thomas Perroud (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)
Chair : Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht university)
To watch the discussions
To download / read Professor Chiti’s long summary
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