Peter Cane - Controlling Administrative Power

Professor Cane will present his new book - CONTROLLING ADMINISTRATIVE POWER: An Historical Comparison (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2016) followed by a commentary by Professor Paul Craig.

This wide-ranging comparative account of the legal regimes for controlling administrative power in England, the USA and Australia argues that differences
and similarities between control regimes may be partly explained by the constitutional structures of the systems of government in which
they are embedded. It applies social-scientific and historical methods to the comparative study of law and legal systems in a novel and innovative
way, and combines accounts of long-term and large-scale patterns of power distribution with detailed analysis of features of administrative
law and the administrative justice systems of three jurisdictions. It also proposes a new method of analysing systems of government based on
two different models of the distribution of public power (diffusion and concentration), a model which proves more illuminating than traditional
separation-of-powers analysis.

Peter Cane is Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra. He
has taught and researched administrative law for almost forty years, and is also well-known for his research on the interface between public and
private law.