Judicial Review of Administrative Action Across the Common Law World: Origins and Adaptation

Description

Research on comparative administrative law, in contrast to comparative constitutional law, remains largely underdeveloped. This book plugs that gap. It considers how a wide range of common law systems have received and adapted English common law to the needs of their own socio-political context. Readers will be given complex insights into a wide range of common law systems of administrative law, which they may not otherwise have access to given how difficult it would be to research all of the systems covered in the volume single-handedly. The book covers Scotland, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Israel, South Africa, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, India, Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand. Comparative public lawyers will have a much greater range of common law models of administrative law - either to pursue conversations about their own common law system or to sophisticate their comparison of their system (civil law or otherwise) with common law systems.

Swati Jhaveri is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS). She teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law and the Law of Torts. At NUS she has been awarded the Faculty and University's Annual Teaching Excellence Awards for three consecutive years and was placed on the University Honour Roll for Teaching Excellence in 2018. She has published in these areas in Public Law, the Tort Law Review, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Federal Law Review and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She is a Solicitor of the High Court of the Hong Kong SAR and England and Wales, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Michael Ramsden is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was previously Assistant Dean for Research and Executive Director of the Centre for Rights and Justice. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative public law and international institutional law in journals including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law Review, Public Law, Journal of International Criminal Justice and the Civil Justice Quarterly. He was educated at Berkeley, Cambridge and King's College London. Professor Ramsden is also a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn and a Door Tenant at 25 Bedford Row, London.