Common law world… The surprising Indian influence on English contractual remoteness rules, by Katy Barnett 27 Jan 202322 Jan 2023 The English case Hadley v Baxendale, which established the fundamental rules governing contractual remoteness in common law countries, seems quintessentially British, an offshoot of the English Industrial Revolution. Hadley’s mill…
Australia… Explaining Tort and Crime (CUP 2022), by M Dyson 20 Jan 202314 Jan 2023 Explaining Tort and Crime describes how English examples of the relationship between tort and crime have developed over the last 170 years, testing those explanations against examples from other legal…
Common law world… Event – Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World 13 Jan 202312 Jan 2023 The new University of Bristol Centre for Private and Commercial Law will be formally launched on 8 February 2023 starting at 17.00-19.00 in the Lady Hale Moot Court 8-10 Berkeley…
Torts Comparative Torts – Liability for AI, by Emmanuelle Lemaire 9 Dec 20229 Dec 2022 The BACL Annual Seminar, chaired by Professor TT Arvind (York University), took place online on 6th September 2022 at the start of Society of Legal Scholar’s Annual Conference at King’s…
Comparative private law… A Mixed Jurisdiction in the Middle of Europe? Poland’s Interwar Experience 1918-1939, by A Grebieniow and J Rudnicki 11 Nov 20224 Nov 2022 Introduction A ‘mixed legal jurisdiction’ is typically a legal order where the common law and civilian traditions intermingle. So says the primary comparative legal literature (H.P. Glenn, Legal Traditions of…
Common law world… Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World, edited by Paula Giliker 21 Oct 202226 Sep 2022 The common law doctrine of vicarious liability in tort is both controversial and on the move. In the last 20 years, this doctrine – which holds one party (usually an…
Comparative private law Bulgarian Private Law at Crossroads (Intersentia 2022), by Radosveta Vassileva 15 Jul 202219 Jul 2022 Literature on East European legal systems, and especially on Bulgarian law, in the English language is incredibly scarce. Bulgarian Private Law at Crossroads, which marks the beginning of Intersentia’s new…
Comparative private law Structure and Rulemaking in English, Japanese and Quebec Trusts, by Joyman Lee 8 Jul 20227 Jul 2022 I have recently defended my PhD thesis at UCL, which focuses on trusts law in Japan as well as Quebec from an English legal perspective. The thesis has two parts:…
Torts Three Liability Regimes for Artificial Intelligence – Algorithmic Actants, Hybrids, Crowds (Bloomsbury 2022), by Anna Beckers and Gunther Teubner 17 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 Who is liable when autonomous digital systems are going astray and causing significant damage? Who should bear the consequences when algorithmic interaction on financial markets causes so-called flash crashes? Who…
Torts Is the German Law of Torts prepared for climate disruption?, by P Semmelmayer 3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022 With the case of Lliuya v RWE AG, the question of the extent to which climate change and tort law are “compatible” has also reached Germany. In the following, I…
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