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CIVIL LIABILITY OF PRINCIPAL FOR THE ACTS OF AGENT – A COMPARISON BETWEEN FRANCE AND MAURITIUS

Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
Mauritian civil law is strongly influenced by French civil law, for historical reasons. Civil liability, tort and contractual law, is regulated in an almost same manner in the two countries.
Goran GEORGIJEVIĆ
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Developing indices to study engineers' interest, confidence, and experience with global engineering work activities

Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 115, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract Background As engineering work has become increasingly globalized, prior studies have examined the intercultural attitudes and competencies of engineering students and practicing engineers. However, we lack tools to study how engineers engage in global work across industries, roles, and organizational contexts.
Lexy Arinze, Joe Tort, Kirsten A. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

The Strict Liability in Fault and the Fault in Strict Liability [PDF]

, 2016
Tort scholars have long been obsessed with the dichotomy between strict liability and liability based on fault or wrongdoing. We argue that this is a false dichotomy.
Goldberg, John C.P., Zipursky, Benjamin C.   +1 more
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Directors’ Duties and Corporate Social Responsibility under German Law – Is Tort Law Litigation Changing the Picture?

Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2017
This article discusses the right and a potential duty of directors to pursue CSR policies under German law. It first explains the two main duties of directors: to make sure that the company complies with its legal obligations, which has been broadly ...
Peter Rott
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Information Shocks, Legal Liability and Physician Decisions

Health Economics, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 896-909, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Physician adoption of new information about a medical procedure can affect patient outcomes. Medical malpractice law may influence physician use of such information. We analyze how physician reactions to information shocks regarding vaginal births after cesarean sections (VBACs) in the 1990s were mediated by tort reform and the standard used ...
David Mushinski, Sammy Zahran
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Limits of Ukrainian Tort Law from Business and Human Rights Perspective

Теорія і практика правознавства
This paper examines the capacity of Ukrainian tort law to address business-related human rights violations, using a model case to evaluate its effectiveness.
Bohdan Karnaukh
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The Breast Implant Controversy: A Prism for Reform [PDF]

, 2001
The author argues that regulatory blunders and the litigation explosion pertaining to breast implants highlight defects in U.S.
Yang, Benson
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Laws, Enforcement, and Strategy: A Multi‐Layered Qualitative Study of Multinational Enterprise Compliance Under European Union and Chinese Data Protection Regimes

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In an era of proliferating but divergent data protection regimes, the European Union's rights‐based approach and China's sovereignty‐centric model have become two dominant poles of global data governance. This article examines how multinational enterprises navigate compliance under these dual systems and how that compliance is shaped through ...
Yiping Cao
wiley   +1 more source

English tort law and the pandemic: the dog that has not barked. [PDF]

Geneva Pap Risk Insur Issues Pract, 2023
Howarth D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 439-466, May 2026.
Drawing on the theory of practical reasons, John Gardner has offered a seminal account of excuses in criminal law. His proposal is that an excuse asserts that the defendant acted for what she justifiably believed to be sufficient reason for her to perform the offending act although she had no such reason.
Andreas Vassiliou
wiley   +1 more source