The Theoretical and Legal-Institutional Context

The “idea of administrative law” that we present and defend here is derived from a model of administrative law from the liberal state, so it is important to start by clearly identifying for our reader the “theoretical code” that underlies our dialogical construction and that, as we shall see, is far removed from what we describe as a “conceptual adulteration” that was introduced at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century.