Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel, Against Privatization as Such (Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No 15-29, 2015), available at SSRN; Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel, The Case Against Privatization, Philosophy and Public Affairs 41(1), 67-102 (2013), available at SSRN; John Gardner, The Evil of Privatization, University of Oxford (2014), available at SSRN. Privatization is a phenomenon that legal theorists and legal philosophers have begun to notice and to stake out positions on, for and against. Privatization is defined with reference to the (too?) familiar distinction between public and private actors. Privatization happens when a good, service, or a function that is typically supplied by state government, through the efforts of its officials and personnel, comes to be provided by private actors, perhaps still at state expense. In a pair of recent articles, Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel have singled out private prisons and mercenary armies as paradigm examples of privatized public goods … (more)
[William A Edmundson, JOTWELL, 3 January]
First posted 2017-01-04 09:12:03
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