The Public Law/Private Law Divide - Une entente assez cordiale?

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".>

About the author

Mark Freedland KC (hon), FBA is Emeritus Professor of Employment Law in the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.Jean-Bernard Auby is Full Professor, and Director of the Center on Changes in Governance and Public Law, at Sciences Po, Paris.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Bernard Auby, Fba Mark Auby Freedland, Mark Auby Freedland, Mark R Freedland
• Assisted by: Jean-Bernard Auby (Editor), FBA Mark Freedland (Editor), Mark Freedland (Editor), Mark R. Freedland (Editor), Birke Häcker (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2006
• EAN: 9781841136356
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-635-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Studies of the Oxford Institut; Studies of the Oxford Institute of European & Comparative Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries