Translation of: Spháere publique, intâerãets privâes: enquãete sur un grand brouillage, published by Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2017.

Introduction
1. In-between the Public and the Private: The New Lawyering Business
2. The Public-Private Foundations of the Neoliberal State
3. The Hollowing Out of the Public Interest
4. A Black Hole in Democracy?
Conclusion: On the "Public Spirited-ness" of the State

Antoine Vauchez is a CNRS Research Professor at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne and a Permanent Visiting Professor at the iCourts research center at the University of Copenhagen. He is a coauthor of How to Democratize Europe.
Pierre France is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne.