Administrative law permeates all area of law, and this series focuses on its role both regionally and globally. This volume focuses on the historical trajectory and developmental legacies of six legal systems from 1809-1910, and how they affect the administrative laws and legal institutions in place today.

Giacinto della Cananea is a professor and leading authority on EU administrative law and comparative administrative law. His publications include five monographs, 20 edited volumes, and over 150 articles, book chapters, and comments to judicial decisions on national and EU administrative law, global administrative law, and public finances. He is a co-ordinator of ReNEUAL, and a member of the European Group of Public Law, the European Constitutional Law Network, the Societas Juris Public Europei, and the Dornburg Group of Administrative Law.
Stefano Mannoni is full professor of legal history at the University of Florence. He has published mainly on history of public law, notably history of state and centralization building in France and history of public international law. He served from 2005 to 2012 as a regulator of the Italian audio-visual and telecommunications industry and since then he has written extensively on the topic of law and technology. In 2013, he was appointed a member of the commission for the reform of the Italian constitution.

• Introduction


• 1: Giacinto della Cananea: Commonality and Diversity in Administrative Justice: Fin de siècle


• The Legal Systems Selected for Comparative Analysis


• 2: Angela Ferrari Zumbini: Standards of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the Austro-Hungarian Empire


• 3: Yseult Marique: The Administration and the Judge: Pragmatism in Belgian Case Law


• 4: Jérémy Mercier: The Judicial Elaboration of Standards for Public Administrations in France


• 5: Lilly Weidemann: Standards of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the German Empire


• 6: Alessandra Bassani: Initial Investigation on Excess of Power: Judicial Review of Administrative Action in Italy


• 7: Conor McCormick: The Historical Foundations of Judicial Review in the United Kingdom


• Comparative Studies


• 8: Leopoldo A Moscoso: Liberal Democracies and the Control of Virtue: The Weakening of Representative Regimes and the Expansion of the Judiciary


• 9: Luca De Lucia: Judicial Review of Administrative Action: A Brief Comparison between the Austro-Hungarian and German Empires


• 10: Robert Thomas: The Development of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom


• 11: Marco Mazzamuto: The Formation of the Italian Administrative Justice System, European Common Principles of Administrative Law, and 'Jurisdictionalisation' of Administrative Justice in the 19th Century


• 12: Stefano Mannoni: The Administrative World of Yesterday