This paper examines the economic basis of nineteenth century common law of employers' liability, and the impact of statutory reforms such as the Employers' Liability Act 1880, Workmen's Compensation Act 1897 and no-fault liability under the Industrial Injuries Scheme that accompanied the...

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 concludes the author's three-part series that underscores the importance of context in analyzing risk allocation in the construction industry. See Carl J. Circo, When Specialty Designs Cause Building Disasters: Responsibility for Shared Architectural and Engineering Services, 84...

This article examines how the English courts have responded to occupational stress claims, and compares this response to the equivalent Australian law and American Federal Law. It outlines the approach of the courts to claims arising in tort and contract respectively and concludes that the...

This article addresses the Young Report, which is an important recent response to Britain's putative ‘compensation culture'. This report is examined with reference to the far-reaching reforms of tort law that occurred in Australia at the start of the twenty-first century. The analysis reveals...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The development of collective redress in practice depends on the availability of adequate funding. In recent years third-party funding by entrepreneurial parties has become an important source of financing collective actions and settlements. Both at the EU level and in most of the Member States...