ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
administrative law.The law governing the organization and operation of administrative
agencies (including executive and independent agencies) and the relations of administrative
agencies with the legislature, the execu-tive, the judiciary, and the public. • Administrative law is
divided into three parts: (1) the statutes endowing agencies with powers and establishing rules of
substantive law relating to those powers; (2) the body of agen-cy-made law, consisting of
administrative rules, regulations, reports, opinions containing findings of fact, and orders; and (3)
the legal principles governing the acts of public agents when those acts conflict with private rights.
[Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 1. C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §
2.]
“Administrative law deals with the field of legal control exercised by law-administering
agencies other than courts, and the field of control exercised by courts over such agencies.” Felix
Frankfurter, The Task of Administrative Law, 75 U. Pa. L. Rev. 614, 615 (1927).
“[A]dministrative law is to labor law, securities regulation, and tax what civil procedure is to
contracts, torts, and commercial law. Administrative law studies the way government institutions
do things. It is therefore the pro-cedural component to any practice that affects or is affected by
government decisionmakers other than just the courts. Its study goes beyond traditional questions;
it explores a variety of procedures and it develops ideas about decisionmaking and
decisionmakers.” 1 Charles H. Koch, Administrative Law and Practice§ 1.2, at 2 (2d ed. 1997).
international administrative law. 1. The internal law and rules of international organizations.
2. The substantive rules of international law that directly refer to the administrative matters of
individual states. 3. Domestic ad-ministrative law specifically concerned with international
problems or situations. — Also termed administrative international law.
administrative law.The law governing the organization and operation of administrative
agencies (including executive and independent agencies) and the relations of administrative
agencies with the legislature, the execu-tive, the judiciary, and the public. • Administrative law is
divided into three parts: (1) the statutes endowing agencies with powers and establishing rules of
substantive law relating to those powers; (2) the body of agen-cy-made law, consisting of
administrative rules, regulations, reports, opinions containing findings of fact, and orders; and (3)
the legal principles governing the acts of public agents when those acts conflict with private rights.
[Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 1. C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §
2.]
“Administrative law deals with the field of legal control exercised by law-administering
agencies other than courts, and the field of control exercised by courts over such agencies.” Felix
Frankfurter, The Task of Administrative Law, 75 U. Pa. L. Rev. 614, 615 (1927).
“[A]dministrative law is to labor law, securities regulation, and tax what civil procedure is to
contracts, torts, and commercial law. Administrative law studies the way government institutions
do things. It is therefore the pro-cedural component to any practice that affects or is affected by
government decisionmakers other than just the courts. Its study goes beyond traditional questions;
it explores a variety of procedures and it develops ideas about decisionmaking and
decisionmakers.” 1 Charles H. Koch, Administrative Law and Practice§ 1.2, at 2 (2d ed. 1997).
international administrative law. 1. The internal law and rules of international organizations.
2. The substantive rules of international law that directly refer to the administrative matters of
individual states. 3. Domestic ad-ministrative law specifically concerned with international
problems or situations. — Also termed administrative international law. [Blacks Law 8th]