Categorisation is fundamental to legal decision making. In constitutional law, jurists must regularly decide whether or not laws and facts fall within the categories defined by the Constitution: is this law a law ‘with respect to ... taxation’?1 Is that corporation a ‘trading corporation’?2 Is performance of this function an exercise of ‘judicial power’?3 Is that nation a ‘foreign power’?4 For ...

This chapter’s objective is to reflect on existing and impending challenges to European Union (EU) public law from both a constitutional and an administrative angle. The background to such an overview is that the EU law has radically changed in the past decades. Next to several Treaty amendments enlarging the scope of EU policies, the EU has grown substantially in size. European administrative ...

This paper tries to analyze the main differences between common law and continental legal systems with regard to administrative law taking into account some aspects of basic constitutional law (The UK does not have a written Constitution). Although both legal systems are committed to the constitutionalism of the modernity, their diversities are much more fundamental, than one would imagine from...