Abstract
Primary, the criteria for distributing litigation competences are as many tools found and used by the Tribunal of Conflicts to achieve its office. Further, due to their amount and the diversity of their purposes they stand for a concrete difficulty for both the lawyer and the litigant as they must necessarily determine the competent jurisdiction – judiciary or administrative – from the beginning of the litigation. It is then compulsory to seize and understand first how they are distributed. Once this classification completed, their real functions can be found out, leading us at last to theorize the method and reasoning of the Tribunal when the latter uses them.By consequence, the cross study of these different tools brings to light “public law links” and “private law links”, so that the competences distribution can be thought more broadly as a web of links. Everything works here as a chain reaction: from the obligational link at the base of the litigation, the link as well as the litigation can be qualified and then, the competent jurisdiction for ruling can be designated. The domino effect works also the other way, because the process gives each party the place he or she deserves depending on the context and their dialogic situation with all its specificities at the same time, underlining the deductive path followed by the Tribunal of Conflicts to opt for the criterion. Finally, the criterion for distributing litigation skills is the Alpha and the Omega of the Tribunal of Conflicts’ reasoning.