Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Torts

Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys's work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an integrated approach to multiple cultural identities as an...

Das Werk widmet sich der Frage, ob und welche medizinprodukterechtliche Normen seit Inkrafttreten der MDR und IVDR als Schutzgesetze im Sinne des
823 Abs. 2 BGB einzuordnen sind, in einer detaillierten Analyse relevanter Normen. Zudem werden medizinprodukterechtliche Grundlagen und andere Haftungstatbestände erläutert, sodass das haftungsrechtliche Gesamtsystem erkennbar wird und zugleich gezeigt, wie das privatrechtliche Haftungssystem legislative Entwicklungen aufgreift.

Written by a lawyer and an economist, this is the first full-length economic study of tort law--the body of law that governs liability for accidents and for intentional wrongs such as battery and defamation. Landes and Posner propose that tort law is best understood as a system for achieving an efficient allocation of resources to safety--that, on the whole, rules and doctrines of tort law encourage the optimal investment in safety by potential injurers and potential victims.

The book contains both a comprehensive description of the major doctrines of tort law and a series...

Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001.

From its beginning late in the nineteenth century, the availability of liability insurance led to the creation of new forms of liability, heavily influenced expansion of the liabilities that already existed, and continually promoted increases in the amount of money that was awarded in tort suits. A "liability-and-insurance spiral" emerged, in which the availability...

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob eine strafrechtliche Sonderverantwortung des Produktherstellers für bereits in Verkehr gebrachte Produkte zu legitimieren ist und wie eine solche konkret ausgestaltet werden könnte. Ausgehend von der Garantenlehre zeigt die Autorin auf, dass das Unterlassen von Gefahrabwendungsmaßnahmen strafwürdiges und strafbedürftiges Verhalten darstellt. Sie beschäftigt sich mit den nach derzeitiger Gesetzeslage bestehenden Sanktionsmöglichkeiten und der bisherigen Rechtsprechungspraxis. Um den hierbei identifizierten Defiziten zu...

The Holocaust was not only the greatest murder in history; it was also the greatest theft. Historians estimate that the Nazis stole roughly $230 billion to $320 billion in assets (figured in today's dollars), from the Jews of Europe. Since the revelations concerning the wartime activities of the Swiss banks first broke in the late 1990s, an ever-widening circle of complicity and wrongdoing against Jews and other victims has emerged in the course of lawsuits waged by American lawyers. These suits involved German corporations, French and Austrian banks, European insurance companies, and...