POTESTAD REGLAMENTARIA Y REGLAMENTO (Acotaciones sobre la Potestad ReglamentariaI de las Administraciones Públicas y el Reglamento como fuente del Derecho Administrativo)

The book, written by José Antonio Muci Borjas, Tenured Administrative Law Professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), when inducted into the Venezuelan Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, deals with an always current topic: administrative regulatory powers and administrative regulations. Although the different State legal systems recognize the Public Administration's regulatory powers, and the Venezuelan system is no exception, the Administration -as Professor Eduardo García de Enterría put it- is a lousy legislator. Lousy because the Public Administration is an organization created for the treatment of the immediate and involved in countless concrete actions; an organization designed to act or influence matters which are, by definition, changing and transient; and, therefore, an organization that lacks that serenity of judgment, that superiority of position and that detachment from the factual assumptions that demand regulation, without which it is not possible to undertake the abstract definition of a just legal order. This set of circumstances justifies a thorough study of the regulatory powers and of regulations, given that the control of legality presupposes a full understanding of this State’s power and of the normative product resulting from its exercise.