The 2024 Product Liability Directive
Doctrinal, Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches
The 2024 Product Liability Directive
Doctrinal, Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Description
The edited volume explores the building blocks of the new EU Product Liability Directive. Offering normative and comparative perspectives, it examines its role within the broader legislative framework. The volume also looks specifically at its application to artificial intelligence. Rigorous and comprehensive, it is a magisterial overview of this transformational legislation.
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Table of Contents
Part One: Building Blocks
1. The Role of the 2024 Product Liability Directive in the EU's Approach to Safety, Gijs van Dijck, Mindy Duffourc & Maria Breskaya
2. Liable entities, Valerio D'Alessandro
3. Defectiveness, Piotr Machnikowski
4. Damage and Compensation, Lotte Meurkens & Marielène Wertenbroek
5. Causation, Béatrice Schütte
6. Defences, Shu Li
7. Temporal Scope and Time Limits, Janwillem Oosterhuis
Part Two: Liability for AI Systems
8. AI-Driven Medical Devices and Defectiveness, Mindy Duffourc
9. AI-Driven Medical Devices between the Later Defect Defence and Development Risk Defence, Andrea Parziale
Part Three: Comparative Perspectives
10. Comparison with Product Liability Law in the US, David Owen & Karen Miller
11. Reforming Product Liability Law in the United Kingdom, Duncan Fairgrieve
12. Comparison with Product Liability Law in China, Jiangqiu Ge & Xiyue Cheng
Part Four: Normative Perspectives
13. A new product liability directive for a sustainable and circular economy, Caroline Cauffman
14. The Interpretive Grammar of the 2024 Product Liability Directive, Deimante Rimkute
15. A Law and Economics Analysis of the 2024 Product Liability Directive, Shu Li & Michael Faure
16. Theoretical and Empirical Considerations About the Hierarchy of Defendants in the 2024 Product Liability Directive, Gitta Veldt & Paul Verbruggen
17. Reading the 2024 Product Liability Directive Through a Global Value Chain Lens, Anna Beckers & Rebecca Ravalli
18. The Distributive Justice Aims of the 2024 Product Liability Directive, Alexandru-Daniel On
Conclusions, Caroline Cauffman, Janwillem Oosterhuis & Alexandru-Daniel On
Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781509993444 |
| Imprint | Hart Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























