Given the specific nature of contemporary ministerial functions, the institute of ministerial responsibility has to be regulated by enacting special legislation on this issue. However, ministerial responsibility is a complex legal institute whose regulation requires a substantially different approach depending on the type of ministerial responsibility at issue. A well-regulated system of minist...

In the legal setting, "cause" is composed of at least two distinct components, of which only one is related to "causality" as scientists understand it. I argue that the alleged separation of the social issue of "scope of responsibility" from the objective question of scientific causality is illusory. "Scientific causality" also plays an essential social role in the legal setting.

Reasoning about causation in fact is an essential element of attributing legal responsibility. Therefore, the automation of the attribution of legal responsibility requires a modelling effort aimed at the following: a thorough understanding of the relation between the legal concepts of responsibility and of causation in fact; a thorough understanding of the relation between causation in fact an...

There is a gap between, on the one hand, the tragic character of human action and, on the other hand, our moral and legal conceptions of responsibility that focus on individual agency and absolute guilt. Drawing on Kierkegaard’s understanding of tragic action and engaging with contemporary discourse on moral luck, poetic justice, and relational responsibility, this paper argues for a reform of ...

In this article, I address the persistent confusion over the meaning of a medical diagnosis of drug addiction or substance dependence in the courtroom, specifically in regard to legal judgments about the reasonable legal person, causation, and individual responsibility in civil actions. Using the example of the Engle tobacco litigation in Florida, where the plaintiffs have reduced mind to brain...

The subject of the study article is legal foundations institution responsibility and features its interaction with consciousness culture. goal to substantiate need for effective regulation liability, taking into account existing forms consciousness. work carried out a comprehensive general theoretical analysis role in process formation development citizens. team authors studying place liability...

legal persons can also be responsible for compensation. they can also be reponsable for others acts. these legal persons are responsible for their own actions and responsibilities of employees and workers in the article 1384 of french law and iran's article 12 of civil liability (the responsibility of employee acts).this responsibility is not a new discussion. but in the books it can be se...