Law in the risk society / series editors, Ubaldus de Vries, John Fanning.
2017
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Title
Law in the risk society / series editors, Ubaldus de Vries, John Fanning.
Published
The Hague : Eleven International Publishing, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
K370 .L389 2017
ISBN
9789462367500 paperback
9462367507 paperback
9789462746930 electronic book
9462367507 paperback
9789462746930 electronic book
Description
xii, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)990110188
Summary
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.
Note
"The volume is a direct result of the first international conference of Ucall (the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law), held in Utrecht in April 2015."--page xi.
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
vii
Preface
xi
1.
Introduction / John Fanning
1
pt. I
Law in the Risk Society: Theoretical Perspectives
2.
Introducing the World Risk Society / Ubaldus de Vries
11
3.
Law in the Risk Society: Challenging Legal Concepts / Scott Veitch
39
4.
Late-modern complexities and the need for critical legal scholarship --- Some thoughts in relation to Professor Scott Veitch's lecture / Ferry de Jong
61
5.
Regulating Risk and a Theory of Social Reflexivity of Law / Maciej Pichlak
83
6.
Ethical Dimensions of Risk: Beck and Beyond / Adriana Placani
101
pt. II
Dealing with Side Effects: Duty of Care and Causation
7.
`Risk Society' and the Duty of Care in English Law / John Fanning
115
8.
Private Actors, Public Safety --- Liability of Private Parties for Providing Inadequate Security / Emanuel van Dongen
143
9.
Puzzles with uncertain causation in tort law / Marianne Hoppenbrouwers
161
pt. III
Theoretical Lenses: Externalising Liability and Freedom to Contract
10.
Looking at Law Differently --- A Legal, Sociological and Moral Perspective to the Dutch Shell Nigeria Cases / Rutger Fransen
187
11.
Contractual Externalities in the Risk Society --- How to Argue for a More Reflexive Contract Law? / Hugo Boom
213
12.
Contract Law, Responsibility and Global Supply Chains --- An Analysis of Contract Law's Involvement in the Commission of Externalities / Tom Bouwman
233