Changing the Mindset: The Place of Theory in English Administrative Law^*

^*A review article prompted by reading: Ian Harden, The Contracting State, Open Univenity Press, 1992; Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992; Ferdinand Mount, The British Constitution Now, Heinemann, 1992; Jurgen Schwarze, European Administrative Law, Sweet and Maxwell, 1992; The Right Hon. Sir Harry Woolf, Protection of the Public—A New Challenge, Stevens, 1990. I am grateful to my friends, Robert Baldwin and Richard Rawlings, for their advice.