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Foreign Law And The U.S. Constitution, Kenneth Anderson
Foreign Law And The U.S. Constitution, Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson
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.
Medical Error As Reportable Event, As Tort, As Crime: A Transpacific Comparison, Robert B. Leflar, Futoshi Iwata
Medical Error As Reportable Event, As Tort, As Crime: A Transpacific Comparison, Robert B. Leflar, Futoshi Iwata
Robert B Leflar
All nations seek to reduce the human toll from medical error, but variations in legal and institutional structures guide those efforts into different trajectories. This article compares legal and institutional responses to patient safety problems in the United States and Japan, addressing developments in civil malpractice law (including discoverability of internal hospital documents), administrative practice (including medical accident reporting systems), and - of particular significance in Japan - criminal law. In the U.S., battles over rules of malpractice litigation are fierce; tort law occupies center stage. The hospital accreditation process plays a critical role in medical quality control, and peer …