Political and Public International Law
X. Administrative Law
A. General Principles
Administrative Law: Part of public law that fixes the organization and determines the competence of administrative authorities and indicates to the individual remedies for the violation of his rights.
Scope of Administrative Law
- Fixes the administrative organization and structure of the government.
- Executes or enforces that which is entrusted to administrative authorities (all those public officers and organs of the government charged with amplification, application, and execution of the law).
- Govern public officers
- Creates administrative agencies
- Provides the remedies to those aggrieved by these agencies.
- Governs judicial review
- Includes Rules, regulations, orders and decisions made by administrative authorities.
- Includes the Body of judicial decisions/doctrines on any of the above.
| Law of Internal Administration | Law of External Administration |
| Treats of the legal relations between the government and its administrative officers, and of the legal relations that one administrative officer or organ bears to another. | Concerned with the legal relations between administrative authorities and private interests. |
As to applicability:
| GENERAL ADMIN LAW | SPECIAL or PARTICULAR ADMIN LAW |
| Part that is of a general nature and common to all, or most, admin agencies; chiefly, but not exclusive procedural law. | Part that pertains to particular agencies; proceeds from the particular statute creating the individual agency. |