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A Comparison Of The Administrative Law Of The Catholic Church And The United States, John J. Coughlin
A Comparison Of The Administrative Law Of The Catholic Church And The United States, John J. Coughlin
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Some years ago, an international symposium of jurists described administrative law as encompassing "the entire range of action by government with respect to the citizen or by the citizen with respect to the government, except for those matters dealt with by the criminal law, and those left to private civil litigation where the government's only participation is in furnishing an impartial tribunal with the power of enforcement."
The broad parameters of the concept of administrative law attest to its importance in any legal system. Indeed, for at least the past fifty years, comparative legal scholars have focused on diverse national …