Law in the risk society
More than 30 years have passed since Ulrich Beck published Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. In it, he argued that contemporary Western societies are increasingly preoccupied by, and organised around, considerations of risk. Beck's work had a transformative effect on social theory, yet its...
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Eleven International Publishing
2017
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Vol. 10 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | More than 30 years have passed since Ulrich Beck published Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. In it, he argued that contemporary Western societies are increasingly preoccupied by, and organised around, considerations of risk. Beck's work had a transformative effect on social theory, yet its impact on law and legal scholarship remains largely unexplored. This collection of essays, collated shortly after Beck's death in 2015, explores and reconsiders the legal foundations, concepts and methodologies of the "modern project" in light of risk society theory. In this volume, academics and lawyers from around the world engage in one of the first comprehensive interrogations of the impact of risk society theory on law and legal scholarship. The authors critically examine topics such as law and (ir)responsibility, reflexive modernisation, and liability, responsibility and accountability through the prism of risk society theory. This collection aims to explore the capacity of law and legal processes to meet the challenges of modernity and adapt to unfamiliar and changing social paradigms. This collection will interest socio-legal scholars, practitioners and students confronted with the novel dilemmas of contemporary society Introduction / Ubaldus de Vries and John Fanning -- Part I Law in the Risk Society : Theoretical Perspectives. Introducing the world risk society / Ubaldus de Vries -- Law in the risk society : challenging legal concepts / Scott Veitch -- Late-modern complexities and the need for critical legal scholarship : some thoughts in relation to Professor Scott Veitch's lecture / Ferry de Jong -- Regulating risk and a theory of social reflexivity of law / Maciej Pichlak -- Ethical dimensions of risk : Beck and beyond / Adriana Placani -- Part II Dealing with Side Effects : Duty of Care and Causation. "Risk society" and the duty of care in English law / John Fanning -- Private actors, public safety : liability of private parties for providing inadequate security / Emanuel van Dongen -- Puzzles with uncertain causation in tort law / Marianne Hoppenbrouwers -- Part III Theoretical Lenses : Externalising Liability and Freedom to Contract. Looking at law differently : a legal, sociological and moral perspective to the Dutch Shell Nigeria cases / Tim Bleeker and Rutger Fransen -- Contractual externalities in the risk society : how to argue for a more reflexive contract law? / Hugo Boom -- Contract law, responsibility and global supply chains : an analysis of contract law's involvement in the commission of externalities / Tom Bouwman |
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| Beschreibung: | Aus dem Vorwort: The volume is a direct result of the First International Annual Conference of UCALL (the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law), held in Utrecht in April 2015 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 257 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9462367507 94-6236-750-7 9789462367500 978-94-6236-750-0 |