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Abstract
The current article examines how China, Brazil and Russia – three major second-generation industrial states whose legal systems are founded on European civil law – have reacted to the legal challenges of modern risk society in their recent codifications of tort law. The author provides an overview of the new liability regimes that have been put in place, demonstrating the extent to which traditional fault-based liabilities have been replaced by stricter liabilities based on risk, whether resulting from organisational shortcomings in industrial processes or inherent in industrialisation and technical development.
Published Online: 2011-04-13
Published in Print: 2011-April