Public management, governance, and law are extremely important. Public servants need to understand how administration, governance, and law are interrelated. Governance includes exercising public authority, representing democratic values, and being aware of serving the public. Law is integral in governing and administration. Law defines, authorizes, and limits public administration through constitutions, statutes, regulations, and court decisions. Laws and legal practices, particularly the judicial reasoning and constitutional due process considerations, are integrated into public administration decisionmaking. Public servants must recognize that democratic values found in the Constitution and laws are essential for accomplishing policies and providing services to the citizens. Public managers need knowledge and skills to do their jobs. Part of the training of public managers includes developing competence in public personnel, budgeting, statistics, and other areas. Public administrators also need to have competence in law. This book is a starting point for public administration and public management students to develop the legal competence they need for good governance. Both the study of public administration and public management emphasize the skills and knowledge public servants need to develop. Public administration is a term used to identify the academic field around the term of the twentieth century, and it is widely used today. Public management also defines the study and practice for public servants, and it often emphasizes the upper level decision-makers. In this book, the terms public administration and public management will be used interchangeably. There are many excellent textbooks on public administration and public management and there are in-depth books on constitutional law and administrative law, but few books link public law knowledge to public administration practices. This book is written for those students who plan to become public managers, and it provides a general background on areas of law that authorize, delegate, and limit their responsibilities to the public.