Acts of God and man

ruminations on risk and insurance

Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks ...

Risk and precaution

The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well- specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks, uncertainties, and 'unknown unknowns' of the real world? In this book, Alan Randall unravels ...

Responsabilidad

concepto jurídico y sus singularidades

Son muchas las acciones cotidianas que implican responsabilidades reguladas jurídicamente: la compra de un billete de autobús, la contratación de un servicio o la compra de un piso. Se trata de una materia compleja, muy regulada y, sin embargo, muy desconocida; ni los legisladores ni ...

Riesgos y daños

Riesgos y daños es el primer libro que aborda con profundidad el análisis de los fundamentos filosóficos del derecho privado. El argumento se desarrolla a partir del posible conflicto que existe entre la justicia y la eficiencia económica cuando se trata de asignar riesgos relacionados ...

Tratado de Derecho civil

introducción a la responsabilidad

Esta introducción general a la responsabilidad presenta, en primer lugar, la evolución del derecho de la responsabilidad civil y sus orientaciones actuales, así como los debates relativos a sus funciones, a su fundamento, y a su lugar entre los diferentes sistemas de indemnización. En segundo ...

The practice of principle

in defence of a pragmatist approach to legal theory

Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work ...

Markets, Morals, and the Law

This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science. There are four sections in the ...