What would really change if France were to reform its law of civil liability?
Event date
23 January 2020
Event time
17:00 - 18:30
Oxford week
Venue
Faculty of Law - The Cube
Speaker(s)
A Workshop on the Projet de réforme de la responsabilité civile
Convenors: Jean-Sébastien Borghetti (Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)) and Simon Whittaker (University of Oxford)
PROGRAMME
1. Background to the Proposed Reform Professor Jean-Sébastien Borghetti | |
2. Table ronde 1: What are the General Features of the Reform? Professor John Bell QC (Hon), FBA (University of Cambridge) Professor Philippe Stoffel-Munck (École de droit de la Sorbonne) Professor Pietro Sirena (Bocconi University) Professor Simon Whittaker (University of Oxford) | |
3. Table ronde 2: Liability for Fault and Without Fault: Preventing and Punishing Wrongful Conduct Dr Matthew Dyson (University of Oxford) Professor Paula Giliker (University of Bristol) Professor Birke Häcker (University of Oxford) | |
4. General Discussion | |
5. Reception and Book Launch for Jean-Sébastien Borghetti and Simon Whittaker (eds) French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective (Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, Hart Publishing, 2019) | |