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The Principle Of Equality In Public Service Appointments And Its Application In Administrative Judicial Stipulations A Comparative Study, Musa Shehada

UAEU Law Journal

The purpose of this research is to analyses the principle of equality in choosing between applicants for public service vacancies as it is one of serval fundamental principles governing appointment in public service.

The study concluded that discrimination among candidates for public service vacancies on the basis of political, religious or sex considerations is not admissible under the Internationl conventions and constitutions of states.

Though the suitability of a nominee to occupy a certain vacancy is to be decided by the concerned authority according to its discretionary power, yet such decision should not be a basis of error in law, …

The Uncertain Effects Of Senate Confirmation Delays In The Agencies, Nina A. Mendelson

Articles

As Professor Anne O’Connell has effectively documented, the delay in Senate confirmations has resulted in many vacant offices in the most senior levels of agencies, with potentially harmful consequences to agency implementation of statutory programs. This symposium contribution considers some of those consequences, as well as whether confirmation delays could conceivably have benefits for agencies. I note that confirmation delays are focused in the middle layer of political appointments—at the assistant secretary level, rather than at the cabinet head—so that formal functions and political oversight are unlikely to be halted altogether. Further, regulatory policy making and even agenda setting can …