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Twenty-First Century Insurance and Loss Distribution in Tort Law [PDF]

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY INSURANCE AND LOSS DISTRIBUTION IN TORT LAW Kenneth Abraham University of Virginia School of Law This paper locates tort liability within our larger system of compensation for injury and illness, and compares the tort system's ...
Kenneth Abraham
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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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Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths [PDF]

Theory suggests that tort reform could have either of two impacts on accidents. First, reforms could increase accidents as tortfeasors internalize less of the costs of externalities, and thus, have less incentive to reduce the risk of accidents.
Rubin, Paul H., Shepherd, Joanna M.
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Taking Fiction Seriously: The Strange Results of Public Officials\u27 Individual Liability Under Bivens [PDF]

, 1999
This article argues that the Supreme Court\u27s decision to place liability on federal officials in their personal capacity--what Professors Fallon and Meltzer call Bivens\u27s genius --is in fact its Achilles\u27 heel. Individual liability under Bivens
Pillard, Cornelia T.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Norwegian Transparency Act: the Importance of Choice of Law

Oslo Law Review
Various avenues are pursued to ensure responsible international business activity. Increasingly, domestic law imposes on companies active on the relevant countryʼs territory duties of vigilance or of diligence regarding the companiesʼ subsidiaries and ...
Giuditta Cordero-Moss
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Civil Recourse Defended: A Reply to Posner, Calabresi, Rustad, Chamallas, and Robinette [PDF]

, 2013
As part of a symposium issue of the Indiana Law Journal devoted to our Civil Recourse Theory of Tort Law, we respond to criticisms by Judge Calabresi, Judge Posner, and Professors Chamallas, Robinette, and Rustad.
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General issues of liability for harm caused for life and health in Germany and Kazakhstan: comparative analyses

Хабаршы. Заң сериясы, 2018
This article deals with the comparative analyses of legislation of Germany and Kazakhstan on liability for harm caused for life and health. The system of tort legislation of Kazakhstan and Germany is shown.
A.S. Dochshanova, N.B. Smatlayev
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The Equivalence of Strict Liability and Negligence Rule: A « Trompe l'œil » Perspective [PDF]

This paper analyzes the difficulties of comparing the respective effectiveness of two among the most important liability regimes in tort law: rule of negligence and strict liability.
Gérard Mondello
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A Note on the Equivalence between Contractual and Tort Liability [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to conciliate some conclusions of the economic theories of breach of contract and tort law. The main result is that the two efficient alternatives that tort law identifies (negligence rule and strict liability with a defense of ...
Germán Coloma, Sergio Pernice
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Regulating Regulators: The Legal Environment of the State [PDF]

, 1990
In this paper I focus on the ability of tort law to reduce primary costs, or losses associated with the number and seriousness of accidents. In one sense I will be analysing the state as if it were a private firm in which losses suffered by private ...
Cohen, David S.
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