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"Contents" [2009] ELECD 283; in Faure, Michael (ed), "Tort Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Book Title: Tort Law and Economics

Editor(s): Faure, Michael

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847206596

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 12

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors xvii
List of abbreviations xviii
General introduction xxi

PART I EFFICIENT LIABILITY RULES

1 Strict liability versus negligence 3
Hans-Bernd Schäfer and Frank Müller-Langer
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Unilateral accidents 5
1.2.1 Rule of no liability 6
1.2.2 Negligence 6
1.2.3 Relaxing assumptions 7
1.2.4 Strict liability 10
1.2.5 Relaxing assumptions for strict liability 10
1.2.6 Liability and uncertain legal standards of due
care 13
1.3 Bilateral accidents 15
1.3.1 The `cheapest cost avoider' 16
1.3.2 Rule of no liability 17
1.3.3 Negligence 17
Simple negligence 17
Negligence with the defence of contributory
negligence 18
Comparative negligence rule 18
1.3.4 Strict liability 19
Simple strict liability 19
Strict division of losses 19
Strict liability with the defence of
contributory negligence 20
Strict liability with the defence of relative
negligence 20
1.3.5 Relaxing assumptions 20
1.4 Litigation costs 24
1.5 The decentralisation effect of strict liability and
negligence 24
1.6 The information-generating consequence of negligence 27

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vi Tort law and economics

1.6.1 Negligence generates public information on
safety technology 27
1.6.2 Information generated by the negligence rule
alleviates principal-agent problems 28
1.7 Strict liability versus negligence if the injurer's
wealth is lower than the damage 29
1.8 Liability and contracts 30
1.9 Negligence under ...