Directors of large corporations are sometimes compared, with considerable justice, to the supreme party council in a one-party state. Potentates of countries commonly regarded as dictatorial might look with envy on American corporate directors not only for the funds of money of which they dispose, but also for the security of their tenure.' But there are many ways in which directors are unlike ...

After the Chinese Tort Liability Law was enacted in 2010, many discussions focus on the liability regime of internet intermediary service providers for illegal content on the internet under the Internet Clause. An online intermediary shall bear joint civil liability with the internet user when it knew that the internet user was taking advantage of its service to commit a tortuous act on its sys...

In the Serbian literature issue of overlap between contractual and liability in tort has been thoroughly discussed. The majority references state that differences two regimes outweigh their common features, thus separate sets rules should exist governing each. There are authors who claim not such significance so as make integral concept for damage senseless, hence they support idea regulating b...

Suicide is a complex event for which psychodynamic, social, cultural, and biochemical factors have been studied. 1-3 In spite of these multiple factors, courts are more and more willing to impose civil liability on a defendant for the suicide of another. Psychiatrists are naturally most concerned with liability for failing to prevent suicide as it arises in the context of a malpractice suit. Wh...

I n its decision of Philippe H. Moransais v. Paul S. Heathman, et al., 24 Fla. L. Weekly S308 (Fla. July 1, 1999),1 the Florida Supreme Court held the Economic Loss Rule (ELR) to be inapplicable to negligence actions against engineers and other professionals. This sudden but welcome detour arrived after more than a decade of case law which stretched, sculpted, and misapplied a product liability...

one of the principles of the responsibilities is that responsibility is personal. the principle of vezr denotes that responsibility is personal. but sometimes there is a vicarious liability. in french law until 1991 the vicarious liability was un exception and the article of 1384 of civil code of french has been interpreted limitedly. from 1991the exception has been changed into the principle. ...