L'incubo di Dicey. Profili storici dell'amministrazione sociale britannica

Unlike Dicey’s interpretation of the non-existence of administrative law during the English 19th century, the article highlights the development of executive functions in parallel with the emergence of social services. However, Diceyan doctrine clearly serves as a crucial framework for understanding the struggling assertion of autonomous legal principles reserved for administration in the new context of the Twentieth-century Welfare State, along with the contemporary complexities of the relationship between social and public law.