TY - BOOK AU - Cappelletti,Marco TI - Justifying strict liability: a comparative analysis in legal reasoning T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780191953170 AV - K948 U1 - 346.038 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Strict liability KW - England KW - United States KW - France KW - Italy KW - Law KW - Methodology KW - Comparative law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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. This book 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859860.001.0001 ER -