“Private actors and public practices in global administrative law” Comment on Rebecca Schmidt

Abstract

The comment focuses on two main issues emerging from the paper under comment. The rst is the notion of “publicness” (and its reverse notion of “privateness”) underlying Rebecca Schmidt’s re ection; the question here is whether we can, or should, presume that Private Law is incapable to respond to the normative goals seeked by the Author. Secondly, we try to present some critical points on the nature, contents and consequences of the innovation of the “practice-based approach” the Author uses in the paper in order to determine which actors and acts should be considered “public” for the purposes of applying the GAL principles.