Abstract

: The law of public administration suffers from a lack of conceptual identity. One of the principal reasons for that deficiency is the limiting nature of administrative law theory. That theory generally fails to address the concerns of the private lawyer who is dealing with public administrators. What is needed is a more sophisticated understanding of the everyday interaction of lawyers and administrators. The author proposes an analytical scheme, based on the idea of decision-making as textual interpretation, by which that interaction might be better understood and more usefully studied. He argues that the essential skill of administrative lawyers is a fine appreciation of how administrative decision-makers differ from judges; the good administrative lawyer understands administrators and the administrative process, and knows how to turn that knowledge to advantage. Sommaire: Le droit administratif souffre d'un manque d'identite conceptuelle. L'une des raisons principales de ce manque est la qualite limitee de la theorie de droit administratif. En general la theorie existante ne repond pas aux besoins des avocats en pratique privet-traitant avec des fonctionnaires. II est necessaire d'arriver a tine comprehension plus approfondie des interactions quotidiennes entre avocats et fonctionnaires. L'auteur propose un schema analytique fonde sur l'idee qu'une decision administrative est line “interpretation textuelle” permettant de mieux saisir et d‘etudier les relations reciproques entre le fonctionnaire et l'avocat. II soutient que la qualite essentielle de l'avocat en droit administratif est une capacite d'identifier l'existence et la nature des differences entre les prises de decision du fonctionnaire et les decisions du juge. Enfin, un bon avocat en droit administratif comprend le fonctionnaire et le processus administratif et sait en tirer profit.

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