Private Law Theory

This one day conference will consider the public/private divide and its peculiar nature. The public/private divide has long engaged academics both in the UK and overseas. In the UK, since the recognition of a discrete body of English public law in the 1960s, academics have struggled with an essential contradiction; the idea of public law is antithetical to historical conceptions of the British constitution and yet the actions of the modern State and individuals are regularly categorised as either public or private … (more)

First posted 2018-07-23 15:12:26