The Public law/private law divide
Subtitle: une entente assez cordiale? : La distinction du droit public et du droit privé, regards français et britanniques
By: edited by Mark Freedland, Jean-Bernard Auby.
Contributors: Auby, Jean-Bernard.; Freedland, M. R.
Series: Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law -- v.2
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Public law -- France -- Congresses.; Civil law -- France -- Congresses.; Public law -- Great Britain -- Congresses.; Civil law -- Great Britain -- Congresses.; Comparative law -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Distinction du droit public et du droit privé, regards français et britanniques
Description: The contributions brought together in this book derive from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions, with the initial rejection of the public-private divide in English Law, but on the other hand its total acceptance as natural in French Law. Then, they go on to demonstrate that the two systems have converged, the British one towards a certain degree of acceptance of the division, the French one towards a growing questioning of it. However this is not the only part of the story, since both visions are now commonly coloured and affected by European Law and by globalisation, which introduces new tensions into our legal understanding of what is "public" and what is "private"
Notes: "... slightly extended and re-ordered version ..." of the 2004 ed. --p.vi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions in French and English.