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Part III - The Law of Public Administration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2020

Elizabeth Fisher
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Sidney A. Shapiro
Affiliation:
Wake Forest University, North Carolina
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Summary

As the law of public administration, judicial review is fundamental. As Louis Jaffe stated in 1965, the “availability of judicial review is the necessary condition, psychologically if not logically, of a system of administrative power which purposes to be legitimate or legally valid.”1 As a forum for active and authoritative accountability, it ensures the worthiness of the administrative state to be recognized. But judicial review for the sake of judicial review is not prima facie meaningful. If it is to be a form of meaningful accountability,2 it must take both administrative authority and capacity into account. As we have said in Chapter 1, the legitimacy of the administrative state depends not only on the legal authority to act, but on the administrative capacity to implement statutory mandates.

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Administrative Competence
Reimagining Administrative Law
, pp. 215 - 297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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