administrative law

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Introduction
Defining principles
- Distinctions between public administration and private action
- The need for legal safeguards over public administration
- Bureaucracy and the role of administrative law
Judicial review of administration
- The common-law system
  - Origins
  - Modification of the common-law system
- The council of state system
  - The French system
  - The German system
- The procurator system
The ombudsman
Administrative procedure

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