Advanced Administrative Law

Advanced Administrative Law will address particularly challenging problems in the law relating to executive decision-makers and other public authorities (other than Parliament), and to institutions and processes for empowering them, regulating and investigating their conduct, and providing redress. The focus is on the law applicable in England and Wales. However, there is no need for students to have studied UK public law previously. That said, students should only choose the course if they have already studied administrative law (whether in a separate course or as part of a course in public law, or constitutional and administrative law) at the level of a first degree in law.

The course will allow students to develop advanced understanding and expertise in administrative law. The teachers will draw on doctrinal, comparative, theoretical, empirical and historical perspectives.

Assessment will be by three-hour examination during the BCL/MJur examination period at the end of the course.