Tort Law, Risk, and Technological Innovation in England

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Record provenance: Published source library
Organisation: Ken Oliphant
Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
Publication date: 2014
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Summary: Ken Oliphant’s peer-reviewed article examines how technological innovation and associated risks influenced the development of English tort law from the Industrial Revolution onward. It considers the interaction between tort liability and alternative mechanisms including insurance, regulation and social welfare in responding to new technological harms.
Význam: The article provides a legal-history framework for evaluating how liability adapts to technological risk and helps contextualise contemporary debates about automated-vehicle responsibility and compensation.
Citation: Ken Oliphant (2014), ‘Tort Law, Risk, and Technological Innovation in England’, McGill Law Journal, 59(4), 819–845.
Recorded review date: 2026-08-25
Official source: https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/tort-law-risk-and-technological-innovation-in-england/

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