PSG X: Law and Public Administration

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Call for Papers

Law and Public administration is a permanent Study Group 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 of justice institutions.

This year we co-organized the Fourth Trans European Dialogue in Vienna (http://ted-dialogues.org/ted-4-vienna/) . Its theme was ‘Law versus management’. Contributions were given on the function of the rule of law, the legitimacy of law and the functionalities of legal protection against the government and the role of ombudsmen between citizens and administration. This meeting will amount in a special issue of the NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and policy: http://www.nispa.org/journal.php

For more detailed information see the Study Group program at the EGPA website: www.egpa-geap.org

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. Study Group members do apply regularly for research grants or visiting scholarships within the studygroups’ network.

Call for papers

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

For the meeting in Bucharest, we ask for multidisciplinary papers to follow up on a major issue arising from the 4^th Trans European Dialogue:  To know more about the interactions between law and management in public administration, and how these interactions  relate to citizens and interested third parties. How come such interactions go well or go wrong? What administrative and citizens behaviours do help create good administration?

Next to that we especially ask for papers on one of the following subjects:

•                     Administrative Law (national, European, comparative) (François Lafarge)

•                     The functioning of Ombudsmen: redress and checks and balances? 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 and Dacian Dragos).

•                     Judicial Administration (Philip Langbroek)

Otherwise we ask for papers on:

•                     Law and risk management in public administration (Juridical quality management).

•                     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.

•                     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

We are, however, open to other proposals

Proposals for papers should contain the following:

• The methodology to be used. Multidisciplinary approaches are welcome
• Partnerships should specifically be mentioned.
• Commitment to attend the EGPA meeting, to participate in exchanges through e-mail and the internet, and to produce final papers for a publication.

Proposals for papers (no more than one page in English) must be sent to the chairpersons of the study group before June 15 2011; Papers will be selected by the Chairpersons no later than July 7 2011.

Authors whose proposals have been accepted should dispatch their completed text (20 pages maximum) to the chairpersons and to the EGPA secretariat by August 15, 2011 at the latest.

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

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