La 4e de couverture indique : "L'entreprise est au coeur du droit de la responsabilité civile, par les acteurs qu'elle mobilise et qui sont autant d'auteurs potentiels de dommages, qu'il s'agisse des dirigeants, salariés ou partenaires ; ou par les activités qu'elle développe, surtout lorsqu'elles sont dangereuses. Or le droit de la responsabilité connaît ou est susceptible de connaître de fortes évolutions. d'une part. en droit interne à travers notamment les différents projets de réformes du droit de la responsabilité ou la jurisprudence récente en matière de responsabilité civile des dirigeants sociaux ou des salariés et. d'autre part, en droit communautaire, à travers notamment les principes du droit européen de la responsabilité civile ou le livre blanc sur les actions en matière de pratiques anticoncurrentielles. L'objectif de l'ouvrage est de montrer dans quelle mesure ces évolutions peuvent affecter les responsabilités au sein de l'entreprise."

The imposition of strict liability in tort law is controversial, and its theoretical foundations are the object of vigorous debate. Why do or should we impose strict liability on employers for the torts committed by their employees, or on a person for the harm caused by their children, animals, activities, or things? In responding to this type of questions, legal actors rely on a wide variety of justifications. Justifying Strict Liability explores, in a comparative perspective, the most significant arguments that are put forward to justify the imposition of strict liability in four legal systems, two common law, England and the United States, and two civil law, France and Italy. These justifications include: risk, accident avoidance, the 'deep pockets' argument, loss-spreading, victim protection, reduction in administrative costs, and individual responsibility. By looking at how these arguments are used across the four legal systems, this book considers a variety of patterns which characterise the reasoning on strict liability. The book also assesses the justificatory weight of the arguments, showing that these can assume varying significance in the four jurisdictions and that such variations reflect different views as to the values and goals which inspire strict liability and tort law more generally. Overall, the book seeks to improve our understanding of strict liability, to shed light on the justifications for its imposition, and to enhance our understanding of the different tort cultures featuring in the four legal systems studied.

The French law of torts or of extra-contractual liability is widely seen as exceptional. For long it was based on a mere five articles of the Civil Code of 1804, but on this foundation the courts and legal scholars have constructed liabilities for fault and strict liability of an extraordinary breadth and significance. While the rest of the general law of obligations (including contract) in the Civil Code was reformed in 2016 by executive ordonnance, this area was left aside, being the subject in 2017 of a proposal by the French Government for the legislative reform of the law of civil liability, a new legislative category to include both contractual and extra-contractual liability. This work considers important aspects of this developing area of French law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative lawyers working in French law and other civil law systems. In doing so, it provides insight into the doctrinal thinking and judgments of French lawyers as well as the possible directions in which this area of the law may be developed in the future.

After being almost untouched for over 200 years, the contract law section of the French Civil Code was overhauled in 2016 and 2018. The New French Law of Contract describes, explains and analyses the new general principles of contract law in the reformed Code in a concise and stimulating way. The areas covered include contract formation, validity, the interpretation and supplementation of terms, the regulation of unfair terms, privity of contract, change of circumstances, breach of contract and remedies. The book examines the ways in which the new articles affirm or depart from the provisions of the 1804 Code and pre-reform case law, giving special attention to changes that have proved to be controversial and the debates that surround them. It also considers the various influences that have shaped the reforms, in particular those from international contract law instruments such as the Principle of European Contract Law and the UNIDROIT Principles. Written from the standpoint of a common lawyer, the book is designed to help readers from a common law background to navigate the innovations in the reforms and the new French law of contract that emerges. It is essential reading for students, researchers, practitioners, law-makers and judges with an interest in comparative law.

L'entreprise est au centre des activités économiques. Elle engage donc sa responsabilité à de nombreuses occasions. Or, les activités de l'entreprise passent par ses organes. Ses organes agissent quotidiennement et leurs comportements sont à l'origine de nombreuses prétentions et de nombreux litiges. En pratique, les questions de responsabilité ont trait le plus souvent à la qualification des organes et aux dommages qu'ils causent. Le présent volume rassemble les travaux de la journée organisée par le CEDIDAC le 19 mars 2003. Des experts nous ont offert une étude de la jurisprudence. Ils exposent également les conséquences de la violation du droit de la concurrence par les organes et ils définissent les éléments caractéristiques de la responsabilité de lege ferenda ainsi que la notion même d'organe. Cet ouvrage est le cinquante-sixième de la collection du CEDIDAC (Centre du droit de l'entreprise - droit industriel, droit d'auteur, droit commercial - de l'Université de Lausanne). Le CEDIDAC est un institut consacré à la formation continue et à la recherche, en particulier dans les domaines du droit qui intéressent les entreprises industrielles et commerciales.

Does private law punish? This collection answers this complex but compelling question. Lawyers from across the spectrum of the law (contract, tort, restitution) explore exactly how it punishes wrong doing. These leading voices ask whether that punishment is effective and what its societal role might be. Taking the discussion out of the technical and into a broader realms of a wider purpose, it is both compelling and thought-provoking.

Punitive damages are private law's most controversial remedy. This book traces the development of the jurisdiction from the foundational decisions of Huckle v Money and Wilkes v Wood in England, to leading modern cases such as Harris v Digital Pulse Pty Ltd in Australia, Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co in Canada, Couch v AG (No 2) in New Zealand, PH Hydraulics and Engineering Pte Ltd v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd in Singapore and Mathias v Accor Economy Lodging, Inc and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co v Campbell in the United States. Many of the decisions addressed are not only landmarks regarding punitive damages but are among the most important judgments delivered in private law more generally. The essays, which are written by leading scholars from a wide range of jurisdictions, cast new light on the cases covered. They do so by examining their historical antecedents and the impact that they have had on the development of the law. The full spectrum of issues regarding punitive damages is addressed including the insurability of punishment, constitutional constraints on the remedy's availability and whether the award should be confined to particular causes of action. The collection will be of interest to all scholars and students of private law. It concentrates on common law cases although civilian perspectives, drawn from France and Germany, are also offered.