European Administrative Law: A Project and Its Methodological Roots

The ‘Common Core of European Administrative Law’ project, launched six years ago and still ongoing, applies the ground-breaking methodology underpinning the longstanding ‘Common Core of European Private Law’ research. The basic aim of the ‘new’ initiative is that of testing, in action, whether and to what extent the comparative legal method successfully developed under the private law-centred project can be applied to the field of administrative law. This paper highlights the scientific premises and methodological roots of the European administrative law research, as well as its promises and challenges.