Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford. From 1976-1998 he was a Fellow in Law at Worcester College, Oxford and member of the Law Faculty. He became a reader in law in 1990. From 1998-2019 he was Professor of English Law, St John's College, Oxford. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2000 was made an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn and a QC (Honoris Causa). From 2010-2019 he was the alternate UK member of the Venice Commission on Law and Democracy. He specializes in constitutional law, administrative law, EU law and comparative public law, and has published extensively in these areas.

• Part I: Perception and Reality


• 1: English Administrative Law History: Perception and Reality


• Part II: Regulation and Administration


• 2: The Regulatory State: Subject Matter


• 3: The Regulatory State: Central Features


• 4: The Administrative State: Subject Matter


• 5: The Administrative State: Central Features


• 6: The Administrative State: Decision-Making and Rulemaking


• 7: The Administrative State: Contract


• Part III: Courts and Doctrine


• 8: Foundations


• 9: Natural Justice


• 10: Jurisdiction, Law, and Fact


• 11: Rights


• 12: Delegation, Fettering, and Purpose


• 13: Reasonableness


• 14: Proportionability and Proportionality


• 15: Prerogative


• 16: Third and Fourth Source Power


• Part IV: Remedies and Review


• 17: Invalidity


• 18: Standing


• 19: Prerogative Writs


• 20: Injunction, Declaration, Quo Warranto, and Habeas Corpus


• 21: Damages and Restitution


• 22: Epilogue

English Administrative Law from 1550 systematically elaborates and contextualizes the origins of administrative law. It upends conventional thinking, charting the development of administrative law from the mid-16th century with an in-depth examination of primary legal materials, statute, and case law.