The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that liability on the part of a person of unsound mind in respect of an act committed by that person does not alter incentives to act by reason of the fact that when this person commits the unlawful act, he is not in possession of all their faculties....

In this paper, we seek to demonstrate that, in the case of the public administration's liability for the property in its custody, the rule of strict liability which seems to be accepted by the Italian Civil Code can be justified in terms of efficiency only if we are trying to allocate risks in...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether the Italian commercial impracticability doctrine reflects the efficient breach theory or the best risk bearer model. The conclusion is that in the Italian legal system there is a discipline that could be considered as a form of “modified” efficient...

This paper puts in evidence that Shavell idea according to which we can have at least a party that takes an efficient level of activity, in a situation of bilateral accident, with the usual tort rules, is wrong. The most important example that there is this mistake is that authors state that a...

In the literature we find unanimous consensus on the analysis of bilateral accident models. In bilateral accident models, indeed, it is usually held that both with the negligence rule and with strict liability with contributory negligence, the residual bearer adopts an efficient level of...