This paper constitutes a chapter in a book on maritime pollution liability and policy in China, Europe and the U.S. and deals with criminal liability for oil pollution damage from an economic perspective. After an introduction first the economic theory of criminalisation is applied to oil...

The traditional economic analysis of tort and insurance has for a long time assumed rationality on the side of persons involved in the accident situation: victims and injurers were assumed to base their decision on e.g. the care levels to adopt on a weighing of cost and benefits of that action....

Written in honour of Guido Calabresi, this essay discusses critically several of the basic assumptions of the neo-classic model of tort law: one being that rational individuals will respond to applicable tort rules, striving to maximise their utility and to satisfy their own self-interest....

Increasingly, China is planning to move to nuclear power. The plan for China is to double its nuclear capacity in the near future. A critical component is that a regulatory framework has to be developed to accompany this move towards nuclear energy. An important component of such a framework is...

This are the concluding remarks to an edited volume on climate change liability. The introduction sketches the reasons for writing a book on climate change liability as well as the problem definition, methodology and structure of the book. The concluding remarks show that from the contributions...

This is the introduction to an edited volume on climate change liability. The introduction sketches the reasons for writing a book on climate change liability as well as the problem definition, methodology and structure of the book. The concluding remarks show that from the contributions in the...