OBATA, Junko <br/><br/>
Le droit administratif face à la diversification de l'action administrative 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  janv./mars 1995 
<br/><br/> At university teaching administrative law is mainly oriented towards general principles whereas specialized study field which can be linked to it (environment, town-planning, education...) are often not taught due to lack of time. The general principles of administrative law do not represent a codified body. This leads to diverging interpretations. The most recent one is rejecting the distinction between public law and private law and tries to find the specificities of law as applied to administration rather than to define its content in order to establish a corpus of rules. Administrative rather than to define its content in order to estabish a corpus of rules. Administrative activity has been considerably diversified, using methods than authority decisions: contracts, general administrative directives...Recently an act on administrative procedure has been adopted by parliament, which officialised amongst others the mechanism of administrative directives. This illustrates a more pragmatic approach to administrative law