Discretionary Powers¶
Galligan, D. J. (1986). Discretionary Powers: A Legal Study of Official Discretion. Clarendon Press.
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- Discretion
- The defining commitment is not vagueness but a designed delegation: the rule fixes the outer boundaries—the permissible range of action—while reserving the selection among permissible actions to the agent who confronts the particular case.
This sourceCanonical legal-theoretic study: discretion as a designed delegation of bounded choice within a structure of standards; the bounding-rule/reserved-gap/situated-agent/reviewability relation; its distinction from mere vagueness; and the consistency-versus-responsiveness trade-off.
- The defining commitment is not vagueness but a designed delegation: the rule fixes the outer boundaries—the permissible range of action—while reserving the selection among permissible actions to the agent who confronts the particular case.
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