This book offers a new framework for understanding contemporary administrative law, through a comparative analysis of case law from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and New Zealand. The author argues that the field is structured by four values: individual self-realisation, good administration, electoral legitimacy and decisional autonomy. This book is a worthwhile exploration of the values that should permeate judicial review of administrative action ... the book provides a framework for understanding the "barnacles on the hull of a shipwreck" that is administrative law.