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西方侵权法中的多数人侵权：一种比较法的视角 (Multiple Tortfeasors In Western Tort Law: A Comparative Outline), Mauro Bussani, Marta Infantino
西方侵权法中的多数人侵权：一种比较法的视角 (Multiple Tortfeasors In Western Tort Law: A Comparative Outline), Mauro Bussani, Marta Infantino
Marta Infantino
The aim of the paper (in Chinese) is to explore the state-of-the-art of principles and rules on multiple tortfeasors liability in Western tort laws. The survey mainlyes focus on a set of Western jurisdictions from Western Europe and North America – mostly on England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.
Making European Tort Law: The Game And Its Players, Marta Infantino
Making European Tort Law: The Game And Its Players, Marta Infantino
Marta Infantino
In the last decades, building a common European tort law has become a primary goal for many European institutions and research groups. On the one hand, EU institutions frequently highlight the need of simplifying the current diversity in European tort law, and try to achieve this goal injecting the European legal framework with (so far quite incoherent) pieces of legislation. On the other hand, many research groups aim to enhance the Europanization process through means that are much differentiated one to the other. Some of these groups (like the European Group on Tort Law and the Study Group on a …
The Common Core Sounds. Short Notes On Themes, Harmonies And Disharmonies Of European Tort Law, Marta Infantino, Mauro Bussani, Franz Werro
The Common Core Sounds. Short Notes On Themes, Harmonies And Disharmonies Of European Tort Law, Marta Infantino, Mauro Bussani, Franz Werro
Marta Infantino
The goal of this paper is to present aims, methods and features of the research carried out by the ‘The Common Core of European Private Law” project in the field of tort law. Accordingly, we will first depict the immediate and long-term goals of the ‘Common Core’ endeavour, as well as its methodology and organisation. We will then illustrate the four tort law volumes that have been so far published within the project. This will lead us to find out the distinctive tenets of the Common Core approach as applied to tort law issues, and to put forward some remarks …
Orient Express Law, Mauro Bussani
Orient Express Law, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
For comparativists, the ‘Europeanization’ of tort law raises a plethora of questions with no clear right or wrong answer. Is European tort law going to be molded by a common law and civil law convergence? Is there an Americanization of European tort law going on? Should comparative law be forward-looking and trying to build European tort law on new bricks, or should it be backward looking, struggling to find evidence of a common past to be restored? While it is beyond the scope of the contribution to offer a definite answer to all these questions, the paper aims to clarify …
European Tort Law – A Way Forward, Mauro Bussani
European Tort Law – A Way Forward, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
In the last years, there have been growing efforts of building a common European tort law. Leaving aside any positive or negative bias vis-à-vis the reasons underpinning these efforts, the paper aims to highlights the overall implications of reframing this field of law, implications that are often forgotten, or undernoted in the debate about the harmonization of European laws of tort. In particular, the paper points out the problems that any integrative enterprise focusing on this field may face, and sketches the possible outcomes that such enterprises are likely to produce in both the short and the long run.
Whiten V. Pilot Ins. Co.: The Unofficial Death Of The Independent Wrong Requirement And Official Birth Of Punitive Damages In Contract, Dr. Yehuda Adar
Whiten V. Pilot Ins. Co.: The Unofficial Death Of The Independent Wrong Requirement And Official Birth Of Punitive Damages In Contract, Dr. Yehuda Adar
Yehuda Adar Dr.
Three years have passed since the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its controversial decision in Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co. In that case, the Court affirmed an almost unprecedented punitive damage award by a jury of one million dollars against an insurance company. More importantly, the Whiten decision appears to be the first attempt by the Supreme Court to construct a comprehensive set of rules and principles in light of which punitive damages cases should be decided in the future. While the extraordinary monetary sanction upheld by the Court has attracted much attention in legal and commercial circles, it seems …
Intention Et Lien De Causalité Dans Le Droit Comparé De La Responsabilité Civile (La Fable Très Peu Convenue De La Malice Qui Accroche), Mauro Bussani
Intention Et Lien De Causalité Dans Le Droit Comparé De La Responsabilité Civile (La Fable Très Peu Convenue De La Malice Qui Accroche), Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
The goal of the essay is to discuss the role that a person’s malice may play in Western tort laws. To this purpose, the paper examines how the finding of the defendant’s malice may: (i) make the victim’s or a third party’s contribution to the injury appear negligible; (ii) blur the distinction between acts and omissions; (iii) relax the notions of proximity and remoteness; and (iv) extend the range of consequences for which the defendant can be held liable.
Responsabilité Des Sujets Atteints De Troubles Mentaux En Italie Et En Common Law, Mauro Bussani
Responsabilité Des Sujets Atteints De Troubles Mentaux En Italie Et En Common Law, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
The aim of this paper is to challenge the traditional principle of Western negligence law according to which, whatever a person’s characteristics are, his/her behavior should be judged against the standard of care expected from the so-called ‘reasonable person’. In particular, the paper focuses on a special category of subjects who are ‘weaker’ than the average because suffering from a psychological disability. Through the comparative analysis of Italian, English, and American tort law rules involving these persons, the paper shows how courts are acutely aware of the need to introduce some degree of flexibility into the median fault parameter.
Making The Other Path Efficient. Economic Analysis And Tort Law In Less Developed Countries, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei
Making The Other Path Efficient. Economic Analysis And Tort Law In Less Developed Countries, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei
Mauro Bussani
The aim of this paper is to advance our understanding of whether and to what extent Law&Economics has a future in addressing, both from a positive and from a normative point of view, legal systems which are outside the Western legal tradition. The analysis proceeds in the following way: Part One focuses on general issues of Comparative Law&Economics. We try to explain from an economic perspective what characteristics make Western law homogeneous in order to have a clear picture of which legal systems we are considering. Part Two discusses some of the assumptions of Law&Economics which may limit the possibility …
Tort Law And Development: Insights Into The Case Of Ethiopia And Eritrea, Mauro Bussani
Tort Law And Development: Insights Into The Case Of Ethiopia And Eritrea, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
The primary purpose of the article is to enrich the understanding of tort laws in Ethiopia and Eritrea and of how these laws deal with environmental issues. Its secondary goal is to clarify the affinities, often hidden, between the issues raised by tort law in developing countries at present times, and the same issues as they emerged in the Western tradition in the past.
Faiblesse Oblige, Mauro Bussani
Faiblesse Oblige, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
A general principle of Western negligence law is that, whatever a person’s characteristics, (dis)abilities, strengths and weaknesses, his/her behavior should be judged against the standard of care expected from the ‘reasonable person’. The latter is a person allegedly endowed with average knowledge, conventional musculature, ordinary reactions, commonplace skills, and normal intelligence and memory – a ‘person without quality’. The aim of this paper is to offer comparative evidence to the fact that the ‘person without quality’ rule (ought not be, and) actually is not imposed upon below-average defendants – that is, persons who are weaker than the ‘reasonable person’, like …