The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law: Volume I: The Administrative State

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyses the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states. Recognizing that the ongoing vertical and horizontal processes of European integration make legal comparison the task of our time for both scholars and practitioners, it aims to foster the development of a specifically European legal pluralism and to contribute to the legitimacy and efficiency of European public law. The first volume of the series begins this enterprise with an appraisal of the evolution of the state and its administration, with cross-cutting contributions and also specific country reports. While the former include, among others, treatises on historical antecedents of the concept of European public law, the development of the administrative state as such, the relationship between constitutional and administrative law, and legal conceptions of statehood, the latter focus on states and legal orders as diverse as, e.g., Spain and Hungary or Great Britain and Greece. With this, the book provides access to the systematic foundations, pivotal historic moments, and legal thought of states bound together not only by a common history but also by deep and entrenched normative ties; for the quality of the ius publicum europaeum can be no better than the common understanding European scholars and practitioners have of the law of other states. An understanding thus improved will enable them to operate with the shared skills, knowledge, and values that can bring to fruition the different processes of European integration.

1: Armin von Bogdandy: The Idea of European Public Law Today 2: Armin von Bogdandy and Stephan Hinghofer-Szalkay: European Public Law - Lessons from the Concept's Past 3: Sabino Cassese: The Administrative State in Europe 4: William J Novak: The Administrative State in America 5: Ewald Wiederin: Evolution and Gestalt of the Austrian State 6: Jean-Bernard Auby and Marcel Morabito: Evolution and Gestalt of the French State 7: Armin von Bogdandy and Peter M Huber: Evolution and Gestalt of the German State 8: Michael Ioannidis and Stylianos-Ioannis G Koutnatzis: Evolution and Gestalt of the Greek State 9: Herbert Kupper: Evolution and Gestalt of the Hungarian State 10: Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella: Evolution and Gestalt of the Italian State 11: Eduardo Garcia de Enterria and Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta: Evolution and Gestalt of the Spanish State 12: Benjamin Schindler: Evolution and Gestalt of the Swiss State 13: Martin Loughlin: Evolution and Gestalt of the State in the United Kingdom 14: Luc Heuschling: The Complex Relationship Between Administrative and Constitutional Law: A Comparative and Historical Analysis 15: Giovanni Biaggini: Legal Conceptions of Statehood 16: Michel Fromont: A Typology of Administrative Law in Europe 17: Jean-Bernard Auby: The Transformation of the Administrative State and Administrative Law 18: Michal Bobek: Europeanization of Public Law