The transformations of administrative law in the face of a change of time?

Abstract

Administrative Law was born in a precise context, that of postrevolutionary France at the end of the 18th century. The theory of the separation of powers and the principle of legality were at the base of the new branch, forged by the jurisprudential work carried out by the French Council of State. Its subsequent evolution was always linked to economic, political and social vicissitudes, and today it faces a scenario marked by a new way of relating between the State and Society, a repositioning of the three organs of the tripartite system of powers, a growing influence of international instances on state ones, and a strong impact on public administration of technological advances. All these changes are making the historical structure of Administrative Law crunch, and they force us to rethink the scope of its classic categories with a view to adjust them to the present status quo.