Public Services Beyond State and Market. Rethinking Contract as a Tool for Decommodification Within European Private Law

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Abstract

This work discusses how different conceptions of contract within European Private Law shape the way of managing and providing public services. The argument builds on an overview of the EU legal framework in the domain of public services. The regime of public procurement and the divide between economic and noneconomic Services of General Interest are addressed. Attention is given to the recent focus on both social and environmental issues and the social economy. This broad analysis gives room to question competition as the major organizational criterion in the legal arrangement of public services,in this respect, the trends characterising the Italian laboratory are discussed to deal with the implementation of EU rules at the domestic level. The critique of the dominant market-oriented and regulatory schemes leads to a new understanding of the overall topic. While antagonistic conceptions of contract serve as basic infrastructures of the market as a socio-legal institution, more sophisticated approaches can play an unexpected role in experimenting with alternative organizations of public services. From this perspective a commons-oriented view of the new property theory is adopted too, to provide end-users with a new legal zone of agency. Although some questions remain open, one can claim that contract can be a tool of de-commodification, capable of bringing public services beyond state and market.

Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)1-31
Numero di pagine31
RivistaItalian Law Journal
Volume9
Numero di pubblicazione1
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2023

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