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.…
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…
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. …
Brexit… Editing a Handbook on European Union Tort Law – Brexit, Language and Deadlines 31 Oct 201717 Apr 2019 October 2017 marked the publication of the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on EU Tort Law. This is part of the series of Research Handbooks in European Law published by leading…
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