Lectures

Knowledge: Upon successful completion of the course, students will know: the law of administrative acts, the legal status of public-administrative contracts, the civil liability of the public sector, the administrative organization of the State, the organization and operation of administrative justice and the basic concepts of public service law.

Skills: Students will be able to: a) organize and present analyses concerning laws that affect and/or influence the activities of the Public Administration. b) analyze the main points of the challenges facing the Public Administration in the broader context of globalization.

Competences: Students: a) will have understood the basic concepts and regulations of the administrative organization of the State and administrative action; b) will be familiar with the case law of the Council of State and administrative courts in general. This will enable them to develop individual and collective research skills in the field concerned. Furthermore, they will be able to link theory and practice and solve practical problems in the relevant field and will have acquired the ability to use in administrative practice their knowledge of the rules governing the organization and functioning of the administration.

Putting knowledge into practice

- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

- Adaptation to new situations

- Decision-making

- Working autonomously

- Teamwork

- Exercising criticism and self-criticism

- Promoting free, creative and deductive thinking

Short Course Description: Administrative Law is concerned with the rules governing the organization and operation of the Public Administration. In the course, the concept and delimitation of Public Administration are first examined and Administrative Law is defined in relation to the other branches of Public Law.

The sources of administrative law (intra- and inter-state) are then analyzed. This is followed by the section on the functioning of the Public Administration which includes, the analysis of the basic principles of Administrative Law of the concept of administrative act, its categories and the process of its production, the validity of the act, access to administrative documents, and the expiry of validity.

Administrative contracts (concept and rules of conclusion) are then briefly discussed. This is followed by a development of the civil liability of the public authorities. The next section deals with the organization of the public administration. The central organs of the State are examined and the institutions of decentralization and self-government (local and special) are analyzed. This is followed by an analysis of the intra-administrative control of the administration by examining administrative appeals, and then the forms of judicial control are examined.

The course concludes with an analysis of the basic elements of public administration law.

The course is developed in 13 lessons.

1.State, Public Administration and Administrative Law

2.Sources of Administrative Law - Principles of Administrative Action

3.The administrative act I (Concept, organs of production, competence of administrative organs)

4.Administrative act II (production, validity, expiry)

5.Administrative contract, non-contractual liability of public administration

6.Control of public administration

7.Administrative justice

8.Systems of administrative organization - Central Administration

9.Administrative decentralization

10.Local Government

11.Kathilyn/Special Self-Government (public legal entities with special purposes)

12.Elements of Civil Service Law I (General, categories of employees, career of civil servants)

13.Elements of Civil Service Law II (rights, obligations, liability, judicial protection)

The e-class (Traditions and consolidation exercises)

E-mail

Written Examination with Multiple-choice Questions (Formative, Summative)

- Written test with extended and/or short-answer questions (Inclusive)

- Written test with problem-solving (Inclusive)

* Intermediate written examination (progress) in part of the material, which is counted (25%) if the final grade is at least five (5).

1.Tsountas (K.), A. Triantafylopoulou (A.). The organization and functions of the Central Administration and Local Government. Papazisis, 2009.

2.Spiliotopoulos (E.) Handbook of Administrative Law - Volume I, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Edition 15th, 2017.

3.Spiliotopoulos (E.) Handbook of Administrative Law - Volume XI, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Edition 15th, 2015.

4.Spiliotopoulos (E.), Ch. Chrysanthakis (H.), Basic Institutions of Public Administration Law, Nomiki Vibliothiki, Edition: 9th, 2017.

5.Gerontas (A.)/Lytras (S.)/Pavlopoulos (P.)/Siouti (G.)/Flogoitis (S.), Administrative Law, Sakkoulas, 4th Edition, 2018.