ESTABLISHING THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN FRANCE, OR THE «BLANCO» CASE

Abstract

The article presents, to the Russian reader, the so-called «Blanco» case, decided by the French Conflict Court in 1873 and remaining, to the day, one of the most renowed cases in French public law. It gives a short survey of the French administrative law in two key areas the founding «Blanco» ruling dealt with: the liability for the torts of public officers and the competence of administrative courts to decide on them. Both aspects were slowly, gradually developped, mostly through case law. The opinion of the reporting juge Marie-René Emond DAVID, and the ruling itself, were translated from French into Russian by the author.