The article challenges Arthur Ripstein’s theses on the place of private law (and tort in particular) John Rawls’ theory justice. According to Ripstein, justice grants a certain independence by exempting it from distributive injunctions principles chosen original position. This conclusion has two bases, one negative and other positive. On side argument, Ripstein claims that position does not...

Whereas the literature evaluating the effect of tort reforms has focused on reported incurred losses, this paper examines the long run effects using a comprehensive sample by state of individual firms writing medical malpractice insurance from 1984-2003. The long run effects of reforms are greater than insurers’ expected effects, as five year developed losses and ten year developed losses are b...

The paper argues that the last few decades have witnessed changes in how citizens are viewed in the UK and that these changes have implications for security risk governance. The paper identifies a shift from contract to tort law, and a related shift from a contract model of citizens to a tort model of citizens, or from a view of citizens as robust, rational risk-takers to vulnerable persons at ...

in iranian law, the claims of medical civil responsibility (medical negligence) can be resolved on the basis of traditional rules of civil responsibility (tort), and there is no special law in this regard. through the legal systems of the would (specially french law) medical civil responsibility system has been changed a lot. these changes have been for the compensation of the victims of medica...

The primary legal obstacles to conducting cybersecurity are not outright prohibitions but rather the difficulty of determining which of a large set of complex statutes might regulate a given research project. Privacy, computer abuse, tort, and contract law are all potentially applicable. Moreover, even when the law permits a research activity, researchers may wonder whether it is ethically perm...