Administrative law branch of modern law under which the executive department of the government, acting in a quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial

l capacity, interferes with the conduct of the individual for the purpose of promoting the well-being of the community. (Dean Roscoe Pound) body of law that allows for the creation of public regulatory agencies and contains all of the statutes, judicial decisions, and regulations that govern them. It is created by administrative agencies to implement their powers and duties in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions. recent development , being a consequence of the ever increasing complexities of society and the proliferation of problems of government that cannot readily or effectively be addressed by the public agencies or solved by other disciplines of public law. Embraces all the law that controls, or is intended to control, the administrative operations of govt, and includes the law: (a) which provides the structure of govt & it prescribes the procedure (It does NOT include the substantive law w/c administration is supposed to apply.) field of control exercised by law-administering agencies other than courts, and the field of control exercised by courts over them.(Justice frankfurter) Part of the public law which fixes the organization and determines the competence of administrative authorities and indicates to the individual remedies for the violation of his rights. (Goodnow) It is the system of legal principles which settle the conflicting claims of executive and administrative authority on the one side, and of individual or private rights on the other.(Freund) Law concerning the powers and procedures of administrative agencies including specially the law governing judicial review of administrative action. (Prof. Kenneth Culp Davis)