ABSTRACT
Administrative law is a part of public law which regulates the legal relationships between the State, regional and local organs of public administration, one with another and with the citizens of the State. Civil law systems generally, following the French model, have a set of administrative courts, separate from the ordinary courts, to deal with the administration of administrative justice. If the complaint concerns the invasion of a subjective right as a consequence of the making of an administrative measure, then the party prejudiced by the measure must seek his relief in the ordinaiy courts. A citizen who wishes to challenge an administrative measure must therefore first of all determine, upon legal advice if necessary, whether it affects his subjective rights or legitimate interests. In Italian law it is to the ordinary courts that recourse must be had where the matter in dispute concerns subjective rights.
