TY - BOOK ID - 135180241 TI - The public law/private law divide : une entente assez cordiale? = La distinction du droit public et du droit prive : regards francais et britanniques AU - Auby, Jean-Bernard AU - Freedland, M. R. PY - 2006 SN - 1472559827 1280808020 9786610808021 1847310591 PB - Oxford Portland, Oregon Hart Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Public law KW - Civil law KW - Comparative law UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135180241 AB - 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" ER -