Comparative Administrative Law
Second Edition
Edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman, Peter L. Lindseth and Blake Emerson
Chapter 25: Voidness and voidability of unilateral administrative acts in the Western tradition
Second Edition
Gabriel Bocksang Hola
Abstract
Western administrative law has built the theory of invalidity through the concepts of voidness –characterized by imprescriptibility– and voidability. This technical dichotomy, part of the Western tradition since Roman law, has been developed differently in various Anglo-American, European and Latin American legal systems. Some of them have developed a monism based on voidness, some a monism based on voidability, and others a dualism combining both categories, revealing diverse preferences in the building of the Rule of Law.
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