Administrative Law Forum, Volume 9

Author: Luo Haocai
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The 9th volume of Administrative Law Forum adheres to the established style of the forum, reflecting to some extent the unremitting efforts of scholars in China's administrative law field, especially young scholars, over the past year. Among them: Gao Qiangwei's Introduction to the Interpretation of Administrative Law Norms combines Chinese realities and conducts a detailed theoretical and practical discussion on the interpretation of administrative law norms, which is of great significance in the application of administrative law but relatively weakly studied domestically, proposing feasible suggestions to solve current Chinese problems. Zhang Shitai's translation of Law and Public Administration by Carol Harlow retrospectively examines some typical responses of administrative law to the evolving techniques of public administration and records some tensions between the fields of law and public administration. The article particularly mentions that, based on a reflection on the cold legalization process and the aloof law, the European Union has increasingly increased its use of "soft law" and reliance on soft governance techniques. The issues concerning public choice theory have much overlap with those concerning public law, hence the article has attracted considerable attention in the field of public law. In the article A Deep Analysis of the Limitations of Public Choice Methodology, Jin Zining discusses the three basic requirements of public choice theory from the perspective of public law, thoroughly analyzing the advantages and limitations of public choice theory as a methodology. Regarding the scholar Oli Loebel's article The New New Deal: The Decline of Regulation and the Rise of Governance in Modern Legal Thought, Wang Xinyan's New Governance from a Legal Perspective and Wang Weiming's Governance Beyond Management interpret and comment on it from different angles, further analyzing the significance of new governance theory for administrative law and some of its own issues. The 9th volume of Administrative Law Forum adheres to the established style of the forum, reflecting to some extent the unremitting efforts of scholars in China's administrative law field, especially young scholars, over the past year. Among them: Gao Qiangwei's Introduction to the Interpretation of Administrative Law Norms combines Chinese realities and conducts a detailed theoretical and practical discussion on the interpretation of administrative law norms, which is of great significance in the application of administrative law but relatively weakly studied domestically, proposing feasible suggestions to solve current Chinese problems. Zhang Shitai's translation of Law and Public Administration by Carol Harlow retrospectively examines some typical responses of administrative law to the evolving techniques of public administration and records some tensions between the fields of law and public administration. The article particularly mentions that, based on a reflection on the cold legalization process and the aloof law, the European Union has increasingly increased its use of "soft law" and reliance on soft governance techniques. The issues concerning public choice theory have much overlap with those concerning public law, hence the article has attracted considerable attention in the field of public law. In the article A Deep Analysis of the Limitations of Public Choice Methodology, Jin Zining discusses the three basic requirements of public choice theory from the perspective of public law, thoroughly analyzing the advantages and limitations of public choice theory as a methodology. Regarding the scholar Oli Loebel's article The New New Deal: The Decline of Regulation and the Rise of Governance in Modern Legal Thought, Wang Xinyan's New Governance from a Legal Perspective and Wang Weiming's Governance Beyond Management interpret and comment on it from different angles, further analyzing the significance of new governance theory for administrative law and some of its own issues.