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

ISBN-13: 9781032241555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 194 str.

Vibe Ulfbeck; Alexandra Andhov; Kateřina Mitkidis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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