This book reimagines administrative law as the law of public administration by making its competence the focus of administrative law.

Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She is the author of the award-winning Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (2007) and Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction (2017).

1. The State We Are In; Part I. Making Administrative Competence Visible: 2. Expert Administrative Capacity; 3. Administrative Accountability; Part II. Confronting the Origin Myths of Administrative Law: 4. Enlightened Foundations; 5. Debating Administrative Law: From the Spoils System to the New Deal; 6. The Emergence of Administrative Law and the Limits of Legal Imagination; 7. The Narrowing of the Administrative Law Imagination; Part III. The Law of Public Administration: 8. Administrative Competence and the Chevron Doctrine; 9. Hard Look Review; 10. Conclusion: Towards an Enlightened Administrative Law.