The article examines Agustín Gordillo’s contribution to law, highlighting his methodological approach inspired by Popper's logic of scientific discovery and critical rationalism. Gordillo envisions Administrative Law as an open, relational, and constantly evolving process, with human rights at its core as operative supra-constitutional principles. His vision anticipates a global model of administrative law, capable of transcending state boundaries and addressing modern challenges through rationality and participation.

This contribution takes stock of the main transformations taking place in administrative functions, between theory and practice. It identifies a line of development from the “absence” of relationship to the “essence” of relationship, in which the administrative function in practice conforms to and is characterized by, a relationship to theory.