The group is a permanent meeting place for scholars and practitioners from different fields: social scientists, jurists and economists working in academia and public institutions, as well as civil servants working in national and supranational institutions. We want to combine external and internal perspectives on law in a public administration context. Internal perspective son law relate to juridical analysis and efforts to improve legal (sub) systems from the perspectives of rules & legal history, jurisprudence and comments. The external perspectives can be of different kinds, as they confront (administrative) law with motives that often are external to law, like efficiency and timeliness of administration, the accountability of public agencies, transparency of government and citizen’s participation in decision-making.