Distinctions between public and private have long troubled administrative lawyers interested in issues of judicial and merits review, regulatory design, and governmental liability in tort and contract. Corporatisation, privatisation, intensified outsourcing, tort law reform, and statutory and Executive compensation schemes in substitution for tort law, have all increased the need to study these issues in depth. Professors Mark Aronson (UNSW) and Carol Harlow (London School of Economics) will conduct the bulk of the course, with additional guest classes by Professors Dennis Pearce and John McMillan (former and current Commonwealth Ombudsmen) and Professor Mike Taggart (Auckland).