Research Catalog

Title

A continental distinction in the common law : a historical and comparative perspective on English public law / J.W.F. Allison.

Author

Allison, J. W. F. (John W. F.)

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description

xvi, 270 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• The development of an autonomous English public law has been accompanied by persistent problems - a lack of systematic principles, dissatisfaction with judicial procedures, and uncertainty about the judicial role. It has provoked an ongoing debate on the very desirability of the distinction between public and private law. In this debate, a historical and comparative perspective has been lacking. A Continental Distinction in the Common Law introduces such a perspective. It compares the recent emergence of a significant English distinction with the entrenchment of the traditional French distinction. It explains how persistent problems of English public law are related to fundamental differences between the English and French legal and political traditions, differences in their conception of the state administration, their approach to law, their separation of powers, and their judicial procedures in public-law cases.
• The author argues that a satisfactory distinction between public and private law depends on a particular legal and political context, a context which was evident in late nineteenth-century France and is absent in twentieth-century England. He concludes by identifying the far-reaching theoretical, institutional, and procedural changes required to accommodate English public law.

Subject

• Administrative law > Great Britain
• Administrative law > France
• Common law
• Civil law
• Administrative law
• Begriff
• Rechtssystem
• Öffentliches Recht
• Bestuursrecht
• Bestuursprocesrecht
• Rechtsbescherming tegen de overheid
• Rechtsontwikkeling
• Droit public > Grande-Bretagne > Études comparatives
• Droit public > France > Études comparatives
• Droits romano-germaniques > Influence
• Droit > Classification
• France
• Great Britain
• Frankreich
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-266) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. A method for transplants -- 3. A model distinction in a model setting -- 4. French approximations -- 5. A Trojan horse of the English legal tradition -- 6. A categorical approach to law -- 7. The separation of powers -- 8. A substantive distinction -- 9. The limits of adversarial adjudication -- 10. The procedural contrast -- 11. Conclusions and implications for English law.

ISBN

• 0198258771
• 9780198258773

LCCN

95037005

OCLC

• ocm33008523
• 33008523
• SCSB-9439778

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library