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

by Freedland, Mark; Auby, Jean-Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781841136356
• ISBN10: 1841136352
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Hart Publishing

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Mark Freedland QC (hon), FBA is Emeritus Professor of Employment Law in the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
Jean-Bernard Auby is Full Professor, and Director of the Center on Changes in Governance and Public Law, at Sciences Po, Paris.

Table of Contents

Contributors/Contributeurs	xiii
Summary/Sommaire	1	(2)
GENERAL INTRODUCTION	3	(3)
An original divergence	3	(1)
A subsequent convergence	3	(1)
Merger into European Law	4	(1)
The public law/private law divide in a globalised political economy	5	(1)
INTRODUCTION GENERALE	6	(248)
Une divergence originelle	6	(1)
Une convergence recente	7	(1)
L'effet de brassage provoque par le droit europeen	7	(1)
La distinction du droit public et du droit prive dans la globalisation	8	(3)
PART ONE/PREMIERE PARTIE THE FRENCH VISION/APPROACHES FRANCAISES
Le role de la dinstinction du droit public et du droit prive dans le droit francais, par Jean-Bernard Auby	11	(10)
Le role conceptuel de la distinction	12	(3)
La distinction designe une structure fondamentale de l'ordre juridique	12	(2)
La distinction donne un nom au particularisme du droit applicable a l'Etat et a l'administration, et elle legitime ce particularisme	14	(1)
Le role pratique de la distinction	15	(6)
Role procedural: le lien avec la dualite de juridiction	15	(2)
Role substantiel: la determination du fond du droit	17	(4)
La distinction entre droit public et droit prive: un dualisme qui resiste aux critiques, par Olivier Beaud	21	(18)
Une distinction contestee	23	(7)
Quelques aspects de l'histoire doctrinale de la distinction droit public --- droit prive au XIXe siecle	30	(9)
Droit public et droit prive: l'evolution du droit processuel, par Philippe Thery	39	(10)
La distinction du droit public et du droit prive dans le droit economique, par Didier Truchet	49	(12)
Le dualisme juridique traverse le droit economique	50	(5)
Le droit prive, droit de l'operateur economique	50	(1)
Le droit prive, droit de l'operateur prive	50	(1)
Le droit prive, droit de l'operateur public	50	(2)
Le droit public, droit de la regulation publique	52	(1)
L'exercice de la puissance publique	52	(1)
Hesitations et contradictions	53	(2)
Le droit economique transcende le dualisme juridique	55	(6)
La nouvelle architecture des sources du droit francais	55	(1)
Une evolution generale	55	(1)
Une evolution accentuee par le droit de la concurrence	56	(1)
Vers un droit economique commun?	57	(1)
La question du droit de propriete	57	(1)
La question de la liberte d'entreprendre	58	(3)
La distinction du droit public et du droit prive dans le droit du travail, par Jean-Michel Olivier	61	(20)
Le droit public en droit du travail	66	(6)
Les acteurs de droit public en droit du travail	67	(1)
«Une veritable police des relations de travail»: l'inspection du travail	68	(1)
Un droit public de la negociation collective: l'extension, l'elargissement et l'agrement de conventions ou accords collectifs	69	(1)
La «publicisation» du droit du travail	70	(1)
Les institutions	70	(1)
Les notions	71	(1)
Le droit du travail en droit public	72	(9)
L'application du droit prive des relations individuelles du travail en droit public	73	(1)
Le Code du travail applique en droit public	74	(1)
... mais une application indirecte du Code du travail en droit public	75	(1)
L'influence du droit prive des relations collectives en droit public	76	(5)
La regulation et la distinction du droit public et du droit prive en droit francais, par Martine Lombard	81	(12)
Le concept de regulation tend a effacer les frontieres entre droit public et droit prive	83	(4)
La regulation emprunte aux techniques classiques du droit public, mais sans s'y limiter	83	(3)
Le contentieux de la regulation revele la difficulte du partage traditionnel de competences entre les deux ordres de juridictions	86	(1)
Les enjeux de la regulation en font un droit «politique» par nature	87	(6)
Regulation et recherche de l'interet public	88	(1)
Regulation et democratie	89	(4)
PART TWO/DEUXIEME PARTIE THE BRITISH VISION / APPROCHES BRITANNIQUES
The Evolving Approach to the Public / Private Distinction in English Law	93	(20)
Mark Freedland
Introduction	93	(1)
The evolution and current state of the distinction in English Law	94	(13)
Terminology --- public law, administrative law, and constitutional law	94	(1)
The impact of Diceyan negative comparative law	95	(2)
The middle and late twentieth-century evolution of public law	97	(2)
Recent practical erosions of the distinction between public and private law	99	(4)
Recent erosions of the distinction in academic theory	103	(4)
Conclusion	107	(6)
English Law's Treatment of Government Contracts: The Problem of Wider Public Interests	113	(18)
Anne CL Davies
Introduction --- Towards a Law of Public Contracts	113	(1)
The Problem of Democratic Mandate	114	(6)
Ultra Vires and statutory contracting powers	114	(2)
Common Law Contracting Powers and the Problem of Accountability	116	(4)
The Problem of Conflicting Powers	120	(8)
Executive Necessity	121	(1)
The Rule against Fettering	122	(2)
Remedies	124	(1)
Options for reform	124	(4)
Conclusion --- the public/private divide re-emphasised?	128	(3)
Competition Law and the Public / Private Divide	131	(34)
Karen Yeung
Introduction	131	(2)
Competition law: past and present	133	(6)
Modern competition law: competition, market power and efficiency	133	(3)
The historical origins of competition law: the protection of liberty	136	(3)
Efficiency, economic theory and non-economic values	139	(11)
The appeal of efficiency and economic theory	139	(1)
Precision and neutrality	140	(2)
Efficiency and other important social values	142	(1)
The reform of UK competition law	143	(1)
An efficiency based regime	143	(3)
Efficiency and institutional design	146	(3)
Summary	149	(1)
The expanding reach of competition law & policy: public administration & public power	150	(6)
Introduction	150	(1)
Privatisation, Deregulation and the New Public Management	151	(1)
Competition policy and public administration	152	(1)
Public enterprise and competitive neutrality	152	(1)
Public procurement and the distortion of markets	153	(1)
Rules, competition policy and the distortion of markets	154	(1)
``Third Way'' politics and competition policy	155	(1)
Competition law and policy: implications for the public/private divide	156	(7)
Public and private values	157	(1)
Public and private power	158	(3)
Public and private law	161	(2)
Conclusion	163	(2)
Making Sense of the Ramsay Principle: a Novel Role for Public Law?	165	(30)
Edwin Simpson
Methodological difficulties	167	(2)
Governing assumptions about the place of taxation within the constitution	169	(8)
The significance of the historical picture	177	(1)
The development of the Ramsay principle	178	(8)
Further indications of regulation of the taxed citizen	186	(3)
Is a new ``public'' understanding possible of the Ramsay principle?	189	(6)
Judicial Control of Contractual Discretion	195	(20)
Ewan McKendrick
The Facts	196	(1)
The nature of the problem	197	(1)
The implication of terms	198	(2)
The options	200	(4)
When will such a term be implied into the contract?	204	(3)
The scope of the implied term	207	(5)
The infiltration of public law values into private law?	212	(3)
Unpacking the Toolbox: Or Why the Public / Private Divide is Important in EC Environmental Law	215	(28)
Elizabeth Fisher
The role of pivate and public actors in EC environmental law	217	(5)
Filling the toolbox: the ``new'' approach to EC environmental law	222	(5)
Unpacking the appeal of the toolbox	227	(4)
Unpacking the complexity and conflict of the toolbox	231	(4)
Unpacking the public law nature of the toolbox	235	(3)
Public/private interaction and administrative constitutionalism	238	(3)
Conclusion	241	(2)
Consumer Law and the Distinction between Public Law and Private Law	243	(11)
Simon Whittaker
Consumerism and the traditions of contract law	243	(3)
Relating consumer law to the distinction between public and private law	246	(3)
The legal nature of travelling by rail	249	(5)
French law	249	(3)
English law	252	(2)
Concluding remarks	254