We often refer to these substantive rules as regulatory laws. Administrative law deals not primarily with the substance, or content, of policy outcomes but with the process of making policies. Administrative law focuses on the procedural problems of fairness and accuracy in governmental decision making.

Statutory laws are written laws that are enacted by an legislative body. Regulatory or administrative laws are passed by executive agencies. Common law is generated through court decisions. A law begins as a bill which is proposed in the legislature and voted upon.

Federal administrative law derives from the President, agencies of the Executive Branch, and independent regulatory agencies. Agencies are given the authority to create administrative law through laws enacted by Congress. The law comes in the form of rules, regulations, procedures, orders, and decisions.

Administrative law governs the internal operations of these agencies and ensures that they do not abuse their power. The main goal of administrative law is to protect the interests of the public as it interacts with government, such as when a person applies for Social Security or food stamps.

Administrative body means any domestic or foreign, national, federal, provincial, state, municipal or other local government or regulatory body and any division, agency, ministry, commission, board or authority or any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any statutory, regulatory, expropriation or taxing …

The definition of statutory is something mandated by or related to statutes, which are laws or bills passed by the legislature. An example of statutory law is the law found in the Clean Air Act, a federal statute.

1 : of or relating to statutes. 2 : enacted, created, or regulated by statute a statutory age limit.

Statutes provide the short-run certainty of written law, but stare decisis endows case law with long-run certainty, because case law (unlike statutes) cannot change abruptly, and in the gradual process of distinguishing, countervailing judicial biases tend to cancel out.

Case law is established by judicial decision in litigated matters (i.e. cases of the Trial Court, Appellate Division or Supreme Court). Administrative law is created by agencies and departments of the government, which carry out statutes passed by Congress or a state legislature.

An example of administrative law is the regulation and operation of the Social Security Administration, and the administration of benefits to the people.