Yesterday we held a great discussion at @cepcgob about Law & Leviathan, by @CassSunstein and @Vermeullarmine The conclusion: the morality of administrative law is a promising path (@JuliaOrtegaB @Silvia_UAM @luisarroyoj). These are my remarks from the Latin American perspective: 
There is a strong connection between the principles of the morality of administrative law and the general principles of the Ius Commune Administrative in Latin America. Particularly, considering the good administration standards recognized in domestic and international law.
Good administration standards are "Janus-faced": they both empower and constraint the administrative state (as Mashaw explained, those standards have similarities with some APA principles). The morality of administrative law brings a new perspective to those standards.
In Latin America, the legal basis of good administration standards is rooted not only in domestic and international law but also in the civil law and the classical legal tradition (Aquinas). In the US, the situation looks different (Wong Yang Sang v. Vermont Yankee).
The Latin American Administrative Law fails, basically, in two morality rules: rules that cannot be implemented and the mismatch between rules as announced and rules as administered, as consequences of fragile states.
Final remark: Law & Leviathan could help, in the US, to move from the "lex administrative" to the "jus administrative", enhancing the rule of law not only from procedural standards. In Latin America, the general principles have helped to build the "Ius Commune".
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