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See also the Research proposal on Effective Adjudication in Administrative Proceedings

Law and Public administration is a permanent Studygroup of the European Group of Public Administration in Brussels. It aims at fostering interdisciplinary study of the practice and theory of law in public administration and policy on national and European (including EU) perspectives. The group wants to be a meeting place for scholars and practitioners from different fields: sociologists, lawyers and economists working in academia and public institutions, as well as civil servants working in national and supranational institutions. We want to combine academic and practice perspectives on law, its functioning and its institutions in a public administration context.  So we aim at legal scholars, policymakers and practitioners who take an interest in the well functioning of administrative and justice institutions.

For more detailed information see the study group program at the EGPA website

Projects & project proposals.

Participants are welcome to propose new projects for research and training and to recruit participants in the study group.  So far the Study group has started projects on ombudsmen and on the effectiveness of proceedings in administrative courts. These projects will continue and will lead to joint activities and, eventually, joint publications. This year the study group has published a special issue of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, http://www.rtsa.ro/en/, edited by Brian Thompson and Dacian Dragos.

Call for papers

The studygroup is interested in all subjects of (European) law and public administration and justice institutions.

In relation to the conference theme, Temporalities, Public Administration and Public Policy, we ask for multidisciplinary papers relating to the following themes from legal and organisation perspectives on, for example:

• Law and risk management in public administration.
• Demands of good administration
• European integration tendencies in transnational law enforcement
• The problematic relation between national citizenship and civil rights and the  increasing  European cooperation in combating crime under the Lisbon Treaty.
• The (non existence of a) European Citizenship.
• The demands on judicial administration in EU member states and in the European Union under the Lisbon treaty.
• The ways Courts and judges can organise consistency of jurisprudence.

Or any other subject you see to fit the study group and conference theme.

The study group is developing research projects on the following topics:

• European Law (François Lafarge)
• Administrative law (national, comparative)
• Ombudsmen and Human Rights? Coordinated by Brain Thompson.
• Effective adjudication in  proceedings against the administration (on this theme, the study-group has started a project, coordinated by mrs. Pauline Willemsen – Utrecht university and Dacian Dragos –Babes Bolyai University).
• Judicial Administration (Philip Langbroek)

The research project proposals will be published on the EGPA website separately and on the studygroup’s portal: http://tinyurl.com/lawandpublicadministration. Those who want to have access to the repository can ask for a username and password with the studygroup directors.

Proposals for papers should contain the following:

• The way they relate to the description of the study groups’ aims, and especially if they are more closely related to one of the issues to be examined during the 2007-2010 period.
• The methodology to be used.  A multidisciplinary approach  and partnerships should specifically be mentioned.
• The possibility and extent of a commitment to attend the EGPA meetings, to participate in exchanges through e-mail and the internet, and to produce final papers for a publication.

Proposals for papers (in English!) must be sent to the chairpersons of the study group before June  15  2010; Papers will be selected by the Chairpersons no later than  July 1 2010.

Authors whose drafts have been accepted should dispatch their completed text (20 pages maximum) to the chairpersons and to the EGPA secretariat by August 15, 2010 at the latest.

Accepted papers are admitted for presentation and discussion at the study-group meeting in Toulouse.

Please contact the co-chairs for more information: