Administrative law is best defined negatively as all rule-making left after excluding other branches

Evidence

It is easy to reel off examples of administrative agencies or administrative tribunals. But it is hard to come up with an exact definition of the administrative sector. Indeed, the best definition, sloppy as it seems, may be a negative one: the administrative sector is everything left over in law and government if we take away the courts and legislative bodies, the president, and all the governors, mayors, and county supervisors (along with their immediate staffs), the police, and agencies concerned with national defense. The residue—​everything else in the legal system concerned with rules and policy and with making rules and policy stick—​is the administrative sector. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 541

Categorization

• DEFINE: A usable working definition of the administrative sector as residual rule-making and policy-enforcement.
• XREF: connects to: Being unnamed by a state’s administrative lexicon places one outside legal protection — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 83

Broader Connections

• Being unnamed by a state’s administrative lexicon places one outside legal protection #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 83