Justifying Strict Liability - A Comparative Analysis in Legal Reasoning

This book explores in a comparative perspective the most significant arguments that are put forward to justify the imposition of strict liability in four legal systems, two common law, England and the United States, and two civil law, France and Italy.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: General Introduction


• 2: Strict Liability in the Four Tort Systems


• 3: The Justifications for Strict Liability: A Comparative Analysis


• 3.1: Introduction


• 3.2: Risk


• 3.3: Accident Avoidance


• 3.4: Deep-Pockets


• 3.5: Loss-Spreading


• 3.6: Victim Protection


• 3.7: Reduction in Administrative Costs


• 3.8: Individual Responsibility


• 4: Concluding Reflections


• Index


• Bibliography

About the author

Marco Cappelletti is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. He holds a D.Phil. and an M.Jur. from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a five-year law degree from the University of Perugia. Marco's research interests lie in comparative law and private law, with a particular focus on tort law.

Summary

This book explores in a comparative perspective the most significant arguments that are put forward to justify the imposition of strict liability in four legal systems, two common law, England and the United States, and two civil law, France and Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Marco (Junior Research Fellow Cappelletti, Marco Cappelletti, Marco (Junior Research Fellow Cappelletti
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192859860
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285986-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Torts, LAW / Comparative, Systems of law, comparative law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts