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87 THRHR 1 (2024)
Private Law, Public Law, and the State: A South African Perspective

handle is hein.journals/tyromhldre87 and id is 4 raw text is: OPSOMMING Privaatreg, publieke reg, en die staat: 'n Suid-Afrikaanse perspektief Die onderskeid tussen privaatreg en publiekreg is goed gevestig in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg, al is die basis daarvan ietwat onduidelik. Die howe en akademici beskou ook oor die algemeen die onderskeid as nuttig, alhoewel sekere implikasies daarvan toenemend uit- dagings bied. So kan dit bevraagteken word tot watter mate die tipering van re61s as behorend tot die privaatreg impliseer dat sulke re61s nie oogmerke kan of mag bevorder wat tradisioneel met die staat vereenselwig word nie. Uitdagings soos hierdie is egter onvermydelik in'n grondwetlike bedeling wat van die howe of regsprekende been van die staatsgesag kan verwag om uiting te gee aan regte en waardes wat nie tipies as privaat- regtelik van aard beskou word nie. 'n Aantal faktore word dan oorweeg wat kan dien as wegwysers om die howe te help bepaal tot watter mate aan hierdie verwagting voldoen kan word. Die gevolgtrekking word bereik dat Suid-Afrikaanse howe oor die algemeen omsigtig te werk gaan in die aanspreek van uitdagings om die grense van die privaatreg uit te brei, maar dat hierdie omsigtigheid nie impliseer dat die howe die transformerende oogmerke van die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 1996 verydel nie. Inteendeel, hierdie ervarings dui juis aan hoe belangrik dit is dat die howe inkrementeel en kreatief die leerstukke en beginsels van die privaatreg ontwikkel. Om dit egter sukses- vol te doen, is dit van die opperste belang dat die howe nie net ons ryk nalatenskap van bronne ontgin nie, maar ook ag slaan op ontwikkelings elders. In did verband is daar interessante internasionale ontwikkelings oor privaatregmetodologie en -teorie wat plaaslik van waarde kan wees. 1 INTRODUCTION The division between private law and public law has been a distinctive feature of civil-law systems for millennia,1 but it has only relatively recently been taken * This essay is based on a paper presented at the Fifth World Congress of The World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists on Mixity in Private Law and/or Public Law, held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Malta from 14 to 16 June 2023. I am grateful for the comments of the participants, as well as those of my colleagues Gerhard Lubbe and Franziska Myburgh. 1 Early origins of the division can be traced to texts ascribed to the Roman jurist Ulpian - see D 1.1.1 and compare 1 1.1.4. Further see Jansen & Michaels Private law and the state - comparative perceptions and historical observations 2007 Rabels Zeitschrift fur auslandisches und internationales Privatrecht 345 358; Michaels & Jansen Private law beyond the state? Europeanization, globalization, privatization 2006 The American Journal of Comparative Law 843 847. On the weak nature of this distinction in times when continued on next page 1

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