Administrative Law Values – Attempts at Methodological Order

Abstract

The appeals to values and the renaissance of axiological thought in the various legal dogmas naturally prompt a methodological order. The article is a voice in the debate on attempts to systematize values in administrative law. On the grounds of positive law, one usually reaches only to justify the thetic validity of norms. In administrative law, which concerns human beings, it is especially common to reach for the axiological basis of the validity of the law – hence the number of value classifications is considerable. The meanders of axiological reflection in administrative law are entering a higher level of complexity. The axiology of administrative law is very complex due to the great diversity of administrative law, and any typologies are contractual in nature. The doctrine is generating new catalogues of values. Each of them is threatened by a form of relativism. The author undertakes an analysis of the proposed classifications, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of the various solutions. The purpose of the article is to present justifications for the separation and classification of values in administrative law and to confirm the relevance of axiologica reflection within the framework of the legal dogma indicated. The main methods used in the text are formal-dogmatic and comparative.