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The principle of justice in tort law in Russia and China

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal, 2022
The study addresses the main problems of the regulation of tort liability in the context of the implementation of the principle of justice in the legislation and law enforcement practice of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.
Tatiana Letuta, Vladimira Dolinskaya
doaj  

Tort Liability

open access: yes, 2019
ABSTRACT: The object of this paper is the tort liability, which represents an important element of the legal relationships. This paper refers at the legal regulation of the tort liability, as well as its scope. This paper also refers at the two types of liability, representing the general liability that we find in the civil law, which is the relation ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

On Liability Insurance for Automobiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Car owners are liable for property damage inflicted on other motorists. In most countries such liability must be insured by law. That law may favor expensive or heavy vehicles, prone to suffer or inflict large losses.
Flåm, Sjur Didrik   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Tort in a Contractual Matrix

open access: yesOsgoode Hall Law Journal, 1995
This article addresses one aspect of the interface between tort and contract: the way tort law is affected, whether by extending or contracting its reach, by the parties coming together against a contractual structure. Two basic situations are considered.
John G. Fleming
doaj   +1 more source

Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
wiley   +1 more source

Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths [PDF]

open access: yes
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.
Shepherd, Joanna M., Rubin, Paul H.
core  

“Hold on, I'm comin'”: Copyright, political campaigns, and the limits of songwriter control

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how songwriters in the United States object to the unwanted performance of their musical works at live political events, and the legal options available to challenge such uses. Prompted by the repeated use of ‘Hold On, I'm Comin'’ as outro music at Donald Trump's campaign events between 2020 and 2024, and the recent ...
Joel Cooper, Marie Hadley
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on the Equivalence between Contractual and Tort Liability [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core  

Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transparency is a key concern in global governance scholarship, yet its contribution to good governance remains deeply ambivalent. Scholars are increasingly questioning the idea of transparency as a silver bullet, emphasizing the need to better understand its potential, pitfalls, and regulatory challenges.
Janne Mende, Richard Georgi
wiley   +1 more source

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