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…
Comparative contracts… Comparative Law of Obligations (Edward Elgar 2021), by Dario Moura Vicente 4 Feb 202225 Jan 2022 Albeit universally known, the concept of Law of Obligations is far from being a unitary one in the various legal traditions. This book provides a comparative overview of the fundamental…
Torts… Comparative Tort Law – Global Perspectives (Edward Elgar 2021), by Mauro Bussani and Anthony Sebok 2 Nov 202111 Apr 2022 Common questions This book is an edited collection of twenty-four essays aiming to provide a framework for reflection and analysis about tort law and its recent developments in ‘Western’ and…
European private law… A new look at the history of modern European comparative law, by Balázs Fekete 20 Jul 202118 Jul 2021 Does it make any sense to study the history of legal scholarship in the 21st century? The answer is not self-evident at all. Our age is definitely fascinated by contemporariness,…
Bell John… COMPARATIVE TORTS: DISCUSSION AROUND MARKESINIS’S GERMAN LAW OF TORTS BY B.S. MARKESINIS, J. BELL AND A. JANSSEN – Report 2 Jul 20212 Jul 2021 On 29th and 30th March 2021, the British Association of Comparative Law organised two webinars entitled respectively Comparative Torts: Liability for Emerging Technologies and Comparative Torts: Liability for Ecological Harm.…
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