The law-and-economics movement has made a huge impact on the scholarship of contract law in the US. But compared to their US counterparts, English legal scholars are less enthusiastic about adopting the economic approach in their research. Existing studies have rarely, from an economic...

Could Brexit be void, and article 50 notification annulled, because of illegality and irregularity in the vote? This paper discusses the implications of three major reports issued in July 2018. First, the Electoral Commission found that ‘Vote Leave' officials were guilty of criminal offences...

A behavioral divide cuts across the Atlantic. Despite the recent surge of behavioral analysis in European academia, a scrutiny of decisions by courts and regulatory agencies in the US and the EU reveals striking differences: While in the US rulings by courts and regulatory agencies progressively...

Criminal Strict Liability The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act is a public protection statute and provides for strict criminal liability. Therefore, corporate officials could be held criminally liable even if they had no knowledge or notice of the wrongdoing. The decision of Dotterweich concerned...

It is a well-established principle of EU competition law that parent companies can be fined for antitrust infringements by their subsidiaries. Under the new EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions, parent company liability is likely to be extended to private antitrust suits. In the United...

The UK's withdrawal from the European Union will have – and already has – a dramatic impact on the political, legal and economic landscape, both in Britain and on the continent. This contribution takes a closer look at the effects on individual relationships and businesses. Against the...

In what have come to be known as "wrongful birth" or "wrongful conception" actions, individuals who have become pregnant after sterilization procedures have failed, have sued their doctors in negligence. Nicolette Priaulx (2008), using legal reasoning, argued that the British courts' rulings in...

This paper has been composed within the framework of the ‘Shifts in Governance’ project, financed by the Netherlands Association for Scientific Research (NWO). It contains an impression of first empirical data that was collected on industrial accidents and occupational diseases in four...

This article is a useful tool for both Asian and European readers as regards some of the state-of-the-art technologies revolving around the Internet of Things (‘IoT') and their intersection with cloud computing (the Clouds of Things, ‘CoT') in both the continents. The main legal issues will...

This pair of papers involves a reprinting of "Of Harms and Benefits: Torts, Restitution, and Intellectual Property," 21 J. LEGAL STUDIES 449 (1992), along with an introduction to that article for students, entitled "Copyright as Tort's Mirror Image". Both involve comparisons between statutory...