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Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract In the Lake Koocanusa‐Kootenai River system (Montana, USA and British Columbia, Canada), selenium (Se) contamination has become an international concern and is suspected to contribute to the observed burbot (Lota lota) population collapse. Due to our limited ability to sample burbot in Lake Koocanusa for monitoring studies, we used a reference
Stephanie D. Graves +6 more
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Michigan Law Review, 2008 This Essay exposes and analyzes a hitherto overlooked cost of tort law: its adverse effect on innovation. Tort liability for negligence, defective products, and medical malpractice is determined by reference to custom. We demonstrate that courts' reliance on custom and conventional technologies as the benchmark of liability chills innovation and ...
Stein, Alex, Parchomovsky, Gideon
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Strict Products Liability Revisited
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1995 This article examines the relationship between two concepts found throughout the law of products liability, defect and negligence. Traditional tort doctrine contends that, although they are sometimes used interchangeably, both concepts refer to quite ...
Denis W. Boivin
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The Efficacy of the Tort System and Its Alternatives: A Review of Empirical Evidence
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1992 This paper reviews the existing empirical evidence on the efficacy of the tort system and alternatives to it. The evidence is evaluated against three normative goals: deterrence, corrective justice, and distributive justice.
Don Dewees, Michael J. Trebilcock
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Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2010 When comparing the seminal Supreme Court of Canada defamation decisions of the 1990s and 2000s, it is apparent that the Court's view on the importance of protecting reputation has changed.
Bob Tarantino
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Normativity, Fairness, and the Problem of Factual Uncertainty
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2009 This article concerns the problem of factual uncertainty in negligence law. We argue that negligence law's insistence that fair terms of interaction be maintained between individuals--a requirement that typically manifests itself in the need for the ...
Andrew Botterell, Christopher Essert
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Blue Jeans, Chewing Gum and Climate Change Litigation: American Exports to Europe
Merkourios, 2013 This paper analyses how American-style climate change litigation might be adopted by the European Union ('EU') and projects potential methods by which the EU might employ the US model, if it indeed chooses to take the climate change battle to the courts.
Daniel G Hare
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Jacques Rancière, « Les mots et les torts. Dialogue avec Javier Bassas », Paris, La Fabrique, 2021.
Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2021 Compte rendu de Jacques Rancière, « Les mots et les torts. Dialogue avec Javier Bassas », Paris, La Fabrique, 2021.
Amirpasha Tavakkoli
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Infringement on the Property in English Law - A Comparative Study - with the Iraqi Civil Code [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوق, 2013 Trespass to land is considered as a kind of civil tort in English law. It is worth-bearing in mind that these civil torts have been included within the law of torts, which is defined as an unwritten law, based on judicial precedents made by English ...
Qusay Salman Hilal +1 more
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Los ilícitos intencionales en el common law
Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, 2018 La intención en la responsabilidad civil extracontractual en el common law ocupa un lugar de mayor destaque que en los sistemas codificados. En éstos, el elemento más relevante es el daño, existiendo éste, en la gran mayoría de los casos, poco importa si
Julio Alberto Díaz
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