Law and Responsible Supply Chain Management - Contract and Tort Interplay and Overlap

Corporate Social Responsibility has for long been on the agenda in the business world and recently, it has also become a political agenda in the European Union. Focusing on international supply chains and their control based on studies of law in several European jurisdictions, this book aims to advance the discussion on the application and enforcement of CSR. Drawing parallels to US and Canadian law, the book explores to what extent private law tools can be used as an enforcement device and it ultimately asks if what we are witnessing is the formation of a new area of law, employing the interplay of contract and tort - a law of "production liability", as a corollary of the concept of "product liability".

List of contents

Table of Contents
 
List of Contributors
Preface

1. Introduction

Vibe Ulfbeck, Alexandra Andhov & Katerina Mitkidis

Part I. Contract law


2. From international law to national law: The opportunities and limits of contractual CSR supply chain governance

Kasey McCall-Smith and Andreas Rühmkorf



3. Contractual enforcement of CSR clauses and the protection of weak parties in the supply chain

Vibe Ulfbeck, Ole Hansen and Alexandra Andhov



4. Enforcement of sustainability contractual clauses in supply chains by third parties

Katerina Mitkidis

Part II. Tort law


5. Direct and vicarious liability in supply chains

Vibe Ulfbeck and Andreas Ehlers



6. Liability for "greenwashing"?: On unfair commercial practices, the legal duty to be transparent and the case for a 'safe harbor'

Louise A. Vytopil

Part III. Interplay and overlap of contract and tort law


7. Interplay between contract and tort in the supply chain

Vibe Ulfbeck and Ole Hansen



8. Developing supply chain liability: A necessary marriage of contract and tort?

Jaakko Salminen and Vibe Ulfbeck
Index

About the author

VIBE ULFBECK is a professor of private law at the Law Faculty at the University of Copenhagen.
ALEXANDRA ANDHOV (JUDr., LL.M., S.J.D.) is assistant professor of corporate law at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law.
KATERINA MITKIDIS is an associate professor at the Department of Law, Aarhus University

Summary

Corporate Social Responsibility has for long been on the agenda in the business world and recently, it has also become a political agenda in the European Union.

Product details

• Authors: Vibe (University of Copenhagen Ulfbeck
• Assisted by: Alexandra Andhov (Editor), Katerina Mitkidis (Editor), Kateřina Mitkidis (Editor), Vibe Ulfbeck (Editor), Ulfbeck Vibe (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032241555
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224155-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; LAW / General, LAW / Corporate, Business ethics & social responsibility, contract law, Business ethics and social responsibility, Language teaching and learning, Purchasing & supply management, Company law, Purchasing and supply management