In Z the risk of liability would be determined by the statute, code or common law of the country. The treatment of personal injury and particularly malpractice liability varies widely among nations particularly in civil law jurisdictions. Jurisdiction over the investigator who has returned to the US may not be readily established. The University and the drug company may be even further removed....

En muchas jurisdicciones, los publicistas son considerados estrictamente responsables de las declaraciones falsas hechos. Esto puede parecer que se sale del enfoque moral ordinario discurso, según el cual individuos describen sus activida-des —la comida prepararon anoche o la habitación para invita-dos—, sólo tienen ser sinceros y cuidadosos con lo dicen; si esfuerzan en hacer cosas bien, moral...

We compare the performance of liability rules for managing environmental disasters when third parties are harmed and cannot always be compensated. A firm can invest in safety to reduce the likelihood of accidents. The firm’s investment is unobservable to authorities. Externality and asymmetric information call for public intervention to define rules aimed at increasing prevention. We determine ...

This paper examines how legal standards of liability may apply to geologic carbon storage. The liability regime governing geologic carbon storage will shape the technology’s cost-effectiveness and overall attractiveness. We classify potential sources of liability into operational, in situ, and climate liability. As a first step, we explore in situ liability in the United States. After summarizi...

Against the threat of online banking theft, governments are imposing two different types of legal schemes: strict liability and negligence. Countries like the U.S. are imposing strict liability on online banking transactions to ensure that service providers like banks take more care. However, under strict liability banks does not provide adequate client security measures. Countries like Korea a...

This paper shows that polluters who underestimate environmental harm might invest excessively in promoting technological change in pollution control under environmental liability law. Neither strict liability nor negligence can prevent such a distortion. However, we define a second best due care standard under negligence that induces a welfare superior R&D equilibrium. If, on the other hand, po...

in this article, it is argued that members states do not normally incur liability for damages caused by the acts of international organizations of which they are members. member state liability can only be found in icases in which some intervening state conduct in functions of organization can be established, as is laid down ini part 5 of the draft articles on the responsibility of internationa...