Introduction to Public Law: A Comparative Study

Introduction to Public Law is a historical and comparative introduction to public law. The book traces back the origins of the res publica to Roman law and analyzes the course of its development, first during the monarchical age in continental Europe and England, and then during the republican age that began at the end of the eighteenth century with the democratic revolutions in the United States and France. For each period and country, the book analyzes the major concepts of public law and their transformations: sovereignty, the state, the statute, the separation of powers, the public interest, and administrative justice.

Introduction to Public Law offers a new approach to public law, defined as the law of the public good, by drawing on historical and comparative analysis of England, France, Germany and the United States.

Elisabeth Zoller, (Docteur en droit, Agrégée de droit public) is Professor of Public Law in the Law School at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas ) where she teaches constitutional law and comparative public law. She has published extensively in international law (Peacetime Unilateral Remedies: An Analysis of Countermeasures, Transnational Publishers, 1984), and more recently in constitutional and comparative public law.