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- Examines the post-war origins of administrative justice and human rights and their capture by neoliberalism, legalism and consumerism
- Proposes a new vision for administrative justice rooted in democratic values and the principle of equality
- Draws on innovative design approaches to describe a future for administrative justice and social rights that is participatory, collective and networked
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
—Naomi Creutzfeldt, University of Westminster, UK
'Doyle and O'Brien's book makes an important and timely contribution to the growing literature on administrative justice, and breaks new ground in the way that it re-imagines the field. The book is engagingly written and makes a powerful case for reform, drawing on case studies and examples, and nicely combining theory and practice. The visionthe authors provide of a more potent and coherent approach to administrative justice will be a key reference point for scholars, policymakers and practitioners working in this field for years to come.'
—Dr Chris Gill, Lecturer in Public Law, University of Glasgow
'This immensely readable book ambitiously and successfully re-imagines adminstrative justice as an instrument of institutional reform, public trust, social rights and political friendship. It does so by expertly weaving together many disparate motifs and threads to produce an elegant tapestry illustrating a remaking of administrative justice as a set of principles with the ombud institution at its centre.’
—Carolyn Hirst, Independent Researcher and Mediator, Hirstworks
This book reconnects everyday justice with social rights. It rediscovers human rights in the 'small places' of housing, education, health and social care, where administrative justice touches the citizen every day, and in doing so it re-imagines administrative justice and expands its democratic reach. The institutions of everyday justice – ombuds, tribunals and mediation – rarely herald their role in human rights frameworks, and never very loudly. For the most part, human rights and administrative justice are ships that pass in the night. Drawing on design theory, the book proposes to remedy this alienation by replacing current orthodoxies, not least that of 'user focus', with more promising design principles of community, network and openness. Thus re-imagined, the future of both administrative justice and social rights is demosprudential, firmly rooted in making response to citizen grievance more democratic and embedding legal change in the broader culture.
Reviews
“Reimagining Administrative Justice is an informative and provocative read.” (Simon Halliday, Journal of Social Security Law, Vol. 28 (1), 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Essex, London, UK
Margaret Doyle
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University of Liverpool, Stockport, UK
Nick O'Brien
About the authors
Nick O'Brien is Honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool University, UK. He was formerly Legal Director of the Disability Rights Commission.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reimagining Administrative Justice
Book Subtitle: Human Rights in Small Places
Authors: Margaret Doyle, Nick O'Brien
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21388-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21387-9Published: 13 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21388-6Published: 31 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 163
Topics: Public Policy, Political Theory, Governance and Government, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights, Conflict Studies