summary lished domestic legal traditions, for example when formulating general administrative legal principles, such as theofficialprincipen(requiring each matter to be properly and fully examined) and the objektivitetsprincipen (requiring official business to be conducted objectively). In his bookDen svenska förvaltningsrättens system(The Swedish Administrative Law System) of 1927, Reuterskiöld attempted to provide an overall scientific analysis of the field and adapt Swedish legal tradition, ancient and own literature to foreign systematic. His presentation was readily digestible for students, with no strange words, using plain language and clear and fluid text. He stressed that the ultimate task of the courts was to protect the legal security of the individual, both in relation to other individuals and to the State. One of the linchpins of Reuterskiöld’s doctrine was that the State was entitled to exercise power, the second that the individual was entitled to protection from the same exercise of power. This perspective was found again in his analysis of procedures and processes. He split the appeals institute into ‘simple appeals’ and ‘legal appeals’, a distinction that is found in the ‘administrative appeals’ and ‘municipal appeals’ of later times. At the same time he cherished the Swedish tradition and emphasised that each administrative decision could in the final instance be appealed to his Royal Majesty in the ‘Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court or the Supreme Court’. The boundary between public administration and administration of justice was unclear, but he claimed that both branches came from the same stem: robust royal power. That the rulings of the Royal Supreme Administrative Court had a function of forming law served as guidance for Reuterskiöld when defining the structure of the general part of administrative law. Unfortunately he was not generous with references to specific legal rulings, for which reason it is difficult to follow the interaction between practice and doctrine. He pointed out the need for local government law but did not get much further than Matthias Theodor Rabenius had got almost fifty years previously, and which had been further advanced by Blomberg in the 1890s. However, it is clear that he grouped the component parts from Blomberg into a general part of administrative law, with terms and prin277
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