Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government.

Administrative law is considered a branch of public law.

Administrative law expanded greatly during the twentieth century, as legislative bodies worldwide created more government agencies to regulate the increasingly complex social, economic and political spheres of human interaction.

Administrative law may also apply to review of decisions of so-called semi-public bodies, such as non-profit corporations, disciplinary boards, and other decision-making bodies that affect the legal rights of members of a particular group or entity.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

Administrative law, as laid down by the Supreme Court of India, has also recognized two more grounds of judicial review which were recognized but not applied by English Courts viz.

The American Bar Association's official journal concerning administrative law is the Administrative Law Review, a quarterly publication that is managed and edited by students at the Washington College of Law.

Stephen Breyer, a U. S. Supreme Court Justice since 1994, divides the history of administrative law in the United States into six discrete periods, according to his book, Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy ( 3d Ed., 1992 ):

* 1945-1965: the Administrative Procedure Act & the maturation of the traditional model of administrative law

Administrative law in Germany, called “ Verwaltungsrecht ”: de: Verwaltungsrecht ( Deutschland ), generally rules the relationship between authorities and the citizens and therefore, it establishes citizens ’ rights and obligations against the

Administrative law in Germany follows three basic principles.

The general administration law is basically ruled in the Administrative Procedures Law ( Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz ).

Other legal sources are the Rules of the Administrative Courts ( Verwaltungsgerichtsordnung ), the social security code ( Sozialgesetzbuch ) and the general fiscal law ( Abgabenordnung ).

Administrative law in the People's Republic of China was virtually non-existent before the economic reform era initiated by Deng Xiaoping.

Category: Administrative law

The main aim of the County Administrative Board is to fulfil the goals set in national politics by the Parliament and the Government, to coordinate the interests and promote the development of the county, to establish regional goals and safeguard the due process of law in the handling of each case.

* Administrative law

The two highest courts, the Supreme Court ( Högsta domstolen ) and the Supreme Administrative Court ( Regeringsrätten ), have the right to set precedent which is in practice ( however not formally ) binding on all future application of the law.

The Cordillera Administrative Region will become an autonomous region and will receive the setup granted to Muslim Mindanao if voters would approve an organic law that would create a Cordillera Autonomous Region.

Administrative tribunals are legislative creations and they can only exist and function within the limits that are imposed by law.

At present, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices under the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in countries that are the major trading partners of Hong Kong, including Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and the European Union.

* Administrative geography of the United Kingdom

* United Nations ' Second Administrative Level Boundaries ( SALB ) dataset

The Chief Justice is the highest judicial officer in the country, and acts as a chief administrative officer for the federal courts and appoints the director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

** Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.

Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.

* Administrative Office of the United States Courts

In the United States, for example, if a Social Security Disability Insurance claimant is found " not disabled " ( and, therefore, ineligible for benefits ) by an Administrative Law Judge ( ALJ ) and the claimant appeals, both the Appeals Council ( the body within the Social Security Administration that hears appeals from decisions of ALJs ) and the Federal courts ( which, in this type of case, will normally hear an appeal only after the claimant has exhausted all administrative remedies ) will look to see whether the administrative law judge's decision was supported by " substantial evidence " or not.

It is employed intra-adjudicatively in Administrative Court determinations, as well as in civil and certain criminal procedure in the United States.

In Yes Minister he is the Minister for Administrative Affairs ( a fictitious ministry of the British government ) and a Cabinet Minister, and in Yes, Prime Minister he becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Bingham and Mills were convicted of murder and sent back to United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility Prison ( ADX ) in Florence, Colorado where they are serving life sentences with no parole, escaping the death penalty.

* United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility ( ADX )

Scott Hoffman, the Chief Administrative Officer of the Camp Meeting Association at the time, said that the association considers the Pavilion to be as much of a religious structure as the Tabernacle or the Youth Temple and that it would not permit same-sex civil union ceremonies to be conducted there, arguing that this was the position of the United Methodist Church.

Judicial review of agencies of the United States federal government, for abuse of discretion, is authorized by the U. S. Administrative Procedures Act.

Special territories without full sovereignty, such as the British Crown Dependencies, The Chinese Special Administrative Regions and overseas territories of Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, are also not considered microstates.

Each district has its own United States district court ( with a bankruptcy court under its authority ), including judges, clerks, court reporters, and other support personnel, all employed by the judicial branch of the government and overseen by the Administrative Office of the Courts in Washington, D. C.

In the federal courts, this use of certiorari has been abolished and replaced by a civil action under the Administrative Procedure Act in a United States district court or in some circumstances a petition for review in a United States court of appeals.

* Krieger, George T .; The Postal Stationery of the Possessions and Administrative Areas of the United States of America ; United Postal Stationery Society, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9800112-3-4.

Its duties included appointing representatives to the United Nations, appointing interim ministers to Iraq's vacant cabinet positions, and drafting a temporary constitution known as the Transitional Administrative Law ( TAL ), which would be used to govern Iraq until a permanent constitution could be written and approved by the general electorate.

SSA decisions are issued by Administrative Law Judges and Senior Attorney Adjudicators ( supported by about 6, 000 staff employees ) at locations throughout the United States of the U. S. Office of Disability Adjudication and Review ( ODAR ), who hear and decide challenges to SSA decisions.

Colombian Constitution of 1991 Article 115: States that the National Government is formed by the President of Colombia, the Vice President of Colombia, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Colombia and the Directors of the Administrative Departments of Colombia.

* Officers of the House of Representatives and of the Senate such as the Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate.

" Podesta has also served as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and the United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy.

On 15 July 2004 the Administrative Board of the European Union's Railway Agency held its first meeting in Phénix, with representatives of the 25 Member States and François Lamoureux, those days Director General for Energy and Transportation at the European Commission.

On March 31, 1946, Mr Leech, the Commissioner of Taungyi, Shan States, invited Karenni leaders to a meeting with the Shan Sawbwas and Kachin Duwahs to discuss Karenni joining with them in the Frontier Areas Administrative Board.

Following a succession of leaders, in 1883, Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith, a graduate of Shaw Collegiate Institute ( later Shaw University ) in Raleigh, N. C., was appointed Principal and Chief Administrative Officer of the State Colored Normal School and began a fifty-year commitment of leadership and affiliation interrupted only by opportunities to honorably serve his country – once as Resident Minister and Consul General of the United States to Liberia and later as Regimental Adjutant of the Third North Carolina Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War.

* Curtis H. Barnette, Trustee ; former Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel ; former Fulbright Scholar ; B. A., West Virginia University ; J. D., Yale University ; admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia and before the U. S. Supreme Court and various federal courts ; appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1988 ; appointed by President George Bush to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations in 1989 ; appointed by Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole as a member of the Coal Commission in 1990 ; President, Association of General Council ; Chairman, American Society of Corporate Secretaries ; Vice Chairman, Yale Law School Fund ; and Member, New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee ; Chairman of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors and the WVU Board of Governors ; Vice Chairman, Foundation for a Drug Free Pennsylvania ; Vice Chairman, Pennsylvania Business Roundtable ; Director, American Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, International Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, WLVT-TV, Channel 39