Administrative / Constitutional Law

Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism

By Elizabeth C. Fisher
Hart Publishing August 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781841130330
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
August 2007
Format
Hardback , 256 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The regulation of environmental and public health risks is one of the most controversial areas of contemporary government activity. This book is a study of the public law dimension of these controversies and in particular the interrelationship between risk regulation, public law, and theories of legitimate administrative governance. Legal disputes over risk regulation standard setting have primarily been disputes over what role public law should play in constituting and limiting the power of administrative risk regulators.

This is even in those jurisdictions where regulatory regimes bear little resemblance to the administrative state. Such conflicts are due to a clash of different visions over how to make standard setting legally, socio-politically, and constitutionally legitimate and they can be best described as disputes over administrative constitutionalism. Two different models of administrative constitutionalism have dominated the legal discourse over risk regulation - the rational-instrumental and the deliberative constitutive.

The book discusses these in detail and examines the legal implications of them in four case studies taken from four very different legal cultures, the US, UK, EC and WTO. It is shown that administrative constitutionalism is an inescapable feature of risk regulation and this has implications for both legal scholars and law reformers alike.

About the Author

Elizabeth Fisher is a Reader in Environmental Law at the University of Oxford and Tutor in Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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