Common law world… Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World, by Paula Giliker 4 Jun 202116 May 2021 Vicarious liability, that is strict liability imposed on one party for the torts of another, remains controversial. If the role of tort law is to make one party accountable to…
Torts Codification, Consolidation, Restatement? How Best to Systemise the Modern Law of Tort, by Paula Giliker 30 Apr 2021 Tort law (or la responsabilité extra-contractuelle, Delikt, la responsabilidad extracontractual … in civil law) represents a dynamic part of private law. In setting out rules of fault and strict liability, tort…
Bell John… Comparative Torts: Discussion around Markesinis’s German Law of Torts by B.S. Markesinis, J. Bell and A. Janssen 28 Jan 20216 Feb 2021 The British Association of Comparative Law warmly invites you to two webinars on Comparative Torts: Liability for Emerging Technologies and Comparative Torts: Liability for Ecological Harm on 29th and 30th…
Covid-19 - comparative perspectives… Serial Health Risks and Civil Liability: A Comparative Study of French and English Law, by Emmanuelle Lemaire 20 Nov 202016 Nov 2020 Abstract Serial health risks are increasing in occurrence and have the capacity to affect large numbers of people living in different countries. Thalidomide, contaminated blood, Diethylstilboestrol (DES), asbestos and Bovine…
Comparison in Europe… Procedural Autonomy Across Europe (Intersentia 2020) 13 Jul 20208 Jul 2020 Background and research questions The book Procedural Autonomy Across Europe, Bart Krans and Anna Nylund (eds.), Intersentia 2020) draws on insights from a previous research project on the interaction between…
Bell John… Reasons and Context in Comparative Law: Workshop to mark the retirement of Professor John Bell 7 Oct 2019 The Centre for European Legal Studies (Cambridge) kindly sponsored a Comparative law workshop in honour of John Bell, who is retiring in September 2019. The workshop, which was organised by…
Torts Understanding Vicarious Liability in Tort – The value of a comparative perspective 17 Feb 201917 Feb 2019 In this blog, I will discuss two recent publications which address comparatively the doctrine of vicarious liability in tort and demonstrate the value of a comparative perspective in this field. …
Comparison in Europe… Publication of papers from BACL Annual Seminar 2017: Comparing UK and Irish law: A special relationship? – Common Law World Review 2018; 47(1): 3–102 1 Jul 2018 The latest edition of the 2018 Common Law World Review is dedicated to papers first delivered at a joint seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law and the Irish…
European private law New Publication: Paula Giliker ‘What do we mean by EU Tort Law?’ Journal of European Tort Law 2018; 9(1): 1–24 8 May 2018 This article is based on a key note paper I gave at the SLS Comparative Law subject section in Dublin in 2017 and I am very grateful to the organisers…
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