New Perspectives on Foreign Administrative Law

Author: Ji Yaping
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: It is explained that foreign administrative law is a compulsory course for the administrative law direction of the Law Department at Northwest University of Political Science and Law and an elective course for other directions. To meet the teaching needs, the author compiled the internal teaching material "Foreign Administrative Law" in 1998 due to the urgency of time, which was somewhat thin. Therefore, with the support of the university, some teachers from the Law Department (Administrative Law Department) jointly wrote this book. This book differs from common foreign administrative law textbooks in the following aspects:
(1) It does not simply list the administrative laws of various countries by nationality but adds a chapter on an introduction to foreign administrative law at the beginning, introducing the origin and development, concepts and characteristics, theoretical foundations, and development trends of foreign administrative law.
(2) To address the practical needs of China's accession to the WTO, a separate chapter is dedicated to introducing the important component of WTO rules in international administrative law. The chapters in between introduce the administrative laws of five countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, and Japan.
(3) To facilitate readers' understanding of the administrative laws of various countries, each chapter includes a section introducing the basic situation of the country's legal system, including the origin and evolution of its laws, an overview of its constitution, and its fundamental characteristics.
(4) To adapt to the operational characteristics of foreign laws, this book provides commentaries on some famous judgments made by foreign courts, which are listed as Appendix I at the end. Researchers often focus only on the laws and legal systems of a few influential major countries, but small countries should not be overlooked. However, due to time constraints, we were unable to introduce them all. Therefore, we have selected the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Law of South Korea and the Administrative Law Code of the Netherlands (the Administrative Procedure Law part) as Appendix II for readers to explore on their own. Due to the above innovations in this book, it is named "New Perspectives."
In the writing of this book, we referred to a large number of domestic and international works, detailed in Appendix II and footnotes. Here, we extend our gratitude to all the authors.