While various liability rules of tort law provide efficient incentives to invest, breach remedies of contract law are claimed to be distortive. Since, at least in Germany, obligations law provides general rules for both contractual and tort relationships such discrepancy seems puzzling. The paper identifies a saddle point property as the driving force behind most efficiency results and it estab...

in the framework of international law, the right to food is a fundamentalright of person towards having sustainable access to food with the qualitywhich responds to his/her food needs. with due respect to the specialposition of states in international law, it is importance to examine theirobligations regarding the right to food. the principal question is that whatconstitutes the legal basis of ...

Dialogues are generated in a joint process of offering and accepting moves. Depending on the dialogue genre, there is usually one participant who takes the initiative; other participants respond to the initiative. In this paper, we further investigate the process of uptake [1, 4]. Essentially, an initiative is ambivalent. The way in which an initiative is ‘taken up’, allows the responder to mod...

INTRODUCTION Psychological contracts of safety are conceptualized as the beliefs of individuals about reciprocal safety obligations inferred from implicit or explicit promises. Although the literature on psychological contracts is growing, the existence of psychological contracts in relation to safety has not been established. The research sought to identify psychological contracts in the conve...

A traditional ethic of medicine asserts that physicians have special obligations to individual patients with whom they have a clinical relationship. Contemporary trends in US healthcare financing like bundled payments seem to threaten traditional conceptions of special obligations of individual physicians to individual patients because their population-based focus sets a tone that seems to emph...