Mit der öffentlichen Debatte um die Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft (TTIP) ist der Investorenschutz auf der politischen Agenda weit nach oben gerückt. Strittig ist vor allem, ob solche Abkommen tatsächlich nötig sind, um das Vertrauen multinationaler Unternehmen in...

The essay deals with five broad themes. Firstly, the idea of rescue is embodied in the duty to act reasonably in tort law. Secondly, explains the judicial array of balances involved in rescue situations involving the victim, rescuer, and defendant. Thirdly, frames the arguments for and against a...

Desde un punto de vista comparado, se describen aquí los dos modelos básicos que existen en Europa a la hora de plantear la indemnización de los daños sufridos por quien antes del accidente desarrollaba tareas domésticas sin remunerar. Después de colocar a nuestro sistema en ese panorama,...

Reforms to the Joint and Several Liability rule (JSL) are one of the most common tort reforms and have been implemented by most US states. JSL allows plaintiffs to claim full recovery from one of the defendants, even if that defendant is only partially responsible for the tort. We develop a...

A popular view among tort theorists is that an explanation of tort law must take account its “structure,” since this structure constitutes the law's “self-understanding.” This view is used to both criticize competing functional accounts of tort law, especially economic ones, that are...

The Research Handbook on the Economic of Torts (Edward Elgar, 2013), edited by Jennifer Arlen, contains a very impressive collection of contributions written by leading tort scholars. The major theme that runs through the Handbook's diversified chapters is that the economic analysis of tort law...

This article seeks to contrast two ways of articulating the harms that tort law aims to redress. On a dominant, “bipolar”, model, the wrong (breach of duty/violation of a right) is contrasted with the losses that flow from it. These losses are either pecuniary or not, in which case they will...