Administrative Law - Advanced

The course examines the principle of good administration as an ordering criterion of public action and as a key to interpreting several core institutions of contemporary administrative law. From this perspective, it addresses administrative procedure, transparency, access rights, performance systems, the main safeguards of administrative integrity, and the tools used to evaluate the quality of public services.
The course aims to provide students with a unified understanding of the relationships among legality, impartiality, transparency, efficiency, and the quality of administrative action, highlighting the connection between the formal dimension of public activity and the administration's actual ability to pursue the public interest.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- understand the content of the principle of good administration in its constitutional and EU law dimensions;
- explain the role of administrative procedure as the structured and safeguarded form of public action;
- analyze the function of transparency and access rights as tools for knowledge and oversight;
- describe the main features of performance management systems and the PIAO (Three‑Year Plan for Organizational Performance and Integrity);
- frame the mechanisms ensuring administrative integrity, with particular attention to anti‑corruption, conflicts of interest, and whistleblowing;
- assess the meaning and limitations of customer satisfaction tools in measuring the quality of public services;
- use the vocabulary and fundamental concepts of administrative law in analyzing cases and applied problems.