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Seminar Series: Administrative Justice – Current State and Future Prospects
(April 2006)
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are sponsoring a series of seminars on administrative justice. The seminars are being undertaken by Professor Michael Adler and Dr Richard Whitecross, and the first was held in Edinburgh in March 2006.
The aims of this seminar series are to review the current state of theoretical work on administrative justice, defined here as work concerned with the justice and fairness of administrative procedures; to consider recent changes in the nature of the state, recent developments in public administration, in the UK and elsewhere and their implications for accountability; and, against this background, to assess the current state of administrative justice in the UK, in particular the balance between external and internal forms of accountability and the degree of co-ordination between them and consider how administrative justice might be enhanced.
The seminars aim to bring together academics who undertake research in different sub-divisions of administrative justice; to facilitate dialogue among them and between them and the major stakeholders in the field; and to develop a research agenda that focuses on some of the most important questions that need to be addressed.
In the first seminar, the speakers considered administrative justice in the USA, Australia and the Netherlands. The remaining four seminars will consider the different mechanisms of redress and forms of accountability of the developments in public administration and assess the current status of administrative justice in the UK, in particular the balance between external and internal forms of accountability and the degree of co-ordination between existing mechanisms of redress and forms of accountability. The series will consider how administrative justice might be enhanced to develop a research agenda which identifies the most important questions relating to administrative justice that need to be addressed.
Places at the seminars are limited. For more information contact Dr Richard Whitecross