Apportionment between Partmakers and Assemblers in Strict Liability

The Criterion of Apportionment of Liability in Several Causes and Its Development in Iranian law

One of the most important topics in the law of civil liability, in the case that two or several factors are causing the damage is discussion of how to distribute the damages and the participation of each factor in the process of part payment of the damage. In any event, given that responsibility should be determined on the basis of liability rules, which in the Iranian law are mostly arising fr...

strict liability; foundations and instances

strict liability is the result of philosophical ideas of lawyers in front of developments in human knowledge and complexity of social relationships. strict liability the main aim is facilitation of victim's compensation, so the proof of fault is not necessary and causation is sufficient. this type of liability is justified by various foundations of economics, society and morality. in the b...

The Case Against Strict Liability

Pollution Externalities: Social Cost and Strict Liability

This paper critically considers the neoclassical social-cost approach to problems of pollution. This traditional approach, when subjected to close scrutiny, is found to be seriously wanting in applicability and consistency. A less ambitious alternative based on notions of strict liability is offered. The social-cost approach is an offshoot of the “new welfare economics~’developed during the las...

Strict Liability versus Negligence in Indiana Harbor

In January of 1979, a railroad tank car containing the chemical acrylonitrile started leaking at a rail yard in south suburban Chicago. The chemical was manufactured by American Cyanamid Co (Cyanamid) in Louisiana. Cyanamid had leased the tank car, filled it with acrylonitrile, and delivered it to the Missouri Pacific Railroad for transport to the Chicago suburbs. The leak occurred while the ca...