Interaction between private and public law
The interplay between private and public law is one of the areas of research in the field of law.
A doctoral project within the subject of law on the theme of privatisation of public activity and the principles of the rule of law has been under way since 2020. Within the framework of the thesis project, the legal consequences of privatisation of public activities are studied to determine which parts of public law are no longer applicable when public data are handed over to individual subjects. This, in turn, is explored in relation to the principles of the rule of law in order to ascertain whether privatisation of public services, or public tasks, at any level risks eroding our rule of law.
Since 2021, research has been conducted within the subject of law relating to issues and perspectives linked to the legal aspects of problems that often arise when the public sector affects the functioning of the market in different ways through its actions. The public sector can influence the functioning of the market either through its own business commitment, as a supporter, in the public capacity as a regulatory authority, or as a client. The areas of law that have been in focus are mainly the rules that form the framework for the public’s competence to conduct business, such as municipal law, the competition law provisions that regulate the role of the public as a market actor, EU state aid law as well as Swedish national regulations regarding public aid, and the regulatory framework that surrounds public procurement.