State Responsibility

A legal concept that was slower to become part of the lexicon of administrative law was that of civil liability of the state, precisely because it was understood that power did not make mistakes and, to that extent, was not capable of causing unlawful damage. It was therefore a relatively long and evolutionary path for many legal systems to define a legal regime for cases of civil liability for acts of public power, largely driven by the constitutional recognition of the existence of state liability for violations of fundamental subjective rights.