DERECHO ADMINISTRATIVO CONTEMPORÁNEO

This book edited by Professor Víctor Hernández Mendible, on Derecho Administrativo Contemporáneo is the product of the research project carried out between 2024 and 2025 by the Centre for Economic Regulation Studies at Universidad Monteávila, in which fourteen administrative law professors from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Universidad Católica del Táchira, Universidad Metropolitana and Universidad Monteávila collaborated. The rigorously defined and interlinked work plan, devised to cover the core content of the discipline of Administrative Law, is structured around seventeen major topics: Constitutional Foundations of Administrative Law; the Principle of Legality; Public Administration and Its Interagency Character; the Administrative Act; Public Contracts; Administrative Procedure; Promotion and Development Activity; Administrative Policing; Administrative Planning; Urban Law; Public Service; Economic Regulation; Public Property; the Civil Service; State Liability; Control of Administrative Activity; and the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction. The research presented here juxtaposes theory and practice, the normative ideal and the empirical reality, and seeks to offer practical responses to legal practitioners, university professors, law students and those in related fields who need to study the foundations of Constitutional and Administrative Law as the latter’s concrete mani