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PUBLIC LAWYERS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS: PROSPECTS FOR AN ALLIANCE?
Author(s) -
DREWRY GAVIN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1986.tb00614.x
Subject(s) - alliance , political science , administration (probate law) , public administration , state (computer science) , public law , subject (documents) , administrative law , action (physics) , law , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , library science , computer science
There is in Britain a longstanding gulf between the study and practice of public administration on the one hand, and the study and practice of public law on the other. This state of affairs contrasts sharply with the situation in many other countries of Western Europe, where public administration is underpinned by well‐developed systems of administrative law. Recent procedural and substantive developments in the field of judicial review of administrative action, together with intensification of debate about constitutional issues, such as the desirability of enacting a new Bill of Rights, have increased the urgency of improving communications and collaboration between these two cognate areas of activity. The burgeoning literature of public law, and the law reports of cases in this subject‐area, constitute a potentially invaluable quarry of source‐material for students of British public administration.