administrative law

American  

noun

1. the body of rules and principles that governs the duties and operations of federal or state administrative agencies, as commissions and boards.

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Etymology

Origin of administrative law

First recorded in 1890–95

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administrative law

In 2021, she became an administrative law judge with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, according to her campaign website.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Last month, the state public-service commission ruled Sleca could abandon 158 customers, including the Boss family, but sent the case over the remaining 124 back to an administrative law judge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Jeff Narvil, 57, an administrative law judge from Jackson, Mississippi, has spent the past 14 months studying Welsh, largely on his own, often in the early hours of the morning.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

The state’s administrative law office decides whether rules and regulations written by North Carolina agencies are in keeping with state law.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

This conception is foreign to the English-speaking world, and neither Great Britain nor any nation of English origin possesses more than here and there an accidental trace of administrative law.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin