European Administrative and Regulatory Reform: Introduction to the Special Issue
4 Colum. J. Eur. L. 493 (1998) Susan Rose-Ackerman. Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University. Regulatory policymaking in the European Union and in its Member States is a fruitful subject for comparative law. American lawyers can gain perspective from studying European administrative law, and comparative administrative law is of increasing practical importance to firms that sell and manufacture in Europe. Europe is a rich subject for comparative analysis because the English legal tradition is quite different from that of the continent, and even within the civil law countries, French public law differs in important ways […]