La carga del perjudicado de evitar o mitigar el daño. Estudio histórico-comparado


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La proliferación de las demandas por responsabilidad civil y la cuantía cada vez más alta de las condenas al resarcimiento hacen necesario analizar los criterios de delimitación del daño resarcible. Ese es el propósito del presente trabajo que se ocupa específicamente del rol que corresponde a la víctima en la contención del daño y de su influencia en el quantum respondeatur. El trabajo utiliza el método histórico-comparado para sustentar que en el sistema romanista de derecho, específicamente en el subsistema latinoamericano, el perjudicado tiene la carga de evitar o mitigar el daño. Ello implica que el perjudicado no tendrá derecho a resarcimiento por aquellos daños que habría podido evitar o mitigar, por tanto, deberán ser excluidos de la cuantía del resarcimiento. El argumento aquí presentado ha ocupado a la doctrina civilista desde hace años; sin embargo, esta es la primera obra que abarca el argumento en profundidad, desde el Derecho romano hasta los más importantes proyectos de unificación del derecho privado, y constituye, además, la primera monografía sobre el argumento en lengua castellana.




La carga del perjudicado de evitar o mitigar el daño


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El estudio del resarcimiento de los daños (tanto en sede contractual como en la extracontractual) ha merecido una especial atención de la doctrina del derecho privado en nuestro sistema romanista, un fenómeno que se ha ido acrecentando a medida que avanza el desarrollo económico y social en el área. Al efecto, y en especial durante la última mitad de siglo, muchos han sido los estudios monográficos y los ensayos específicos que, en diversas latitudes, han abordado aspectos ligados a este argumento, y ello ya desde perspectivas históricas, nacionales e inclusive de armonización o comparación, aunque en este último caso generalmente acotadas a soluciones adoptadas en ciertos países europeos (e inclusive en su relación con el common law) pero con muy escasas referencias al derecho latinoamericano.En este contexto, la obra que prologamos contiene innovaciones relevantes. Al efecto, ella se destaca, desde ya, por poner su atención en una cuestión que, hasta ahora, no había tenido un tratamiento central y exhaustivo como el que aquí se ha dado, consistente en una manifestación específica de los llamados "deberes de cooperación entre las partes de la obligación" cual es el deber que tiene el acreedor de evitar o mitigar el daño con repercusiones especiales en la fijación del quantum resarcitorio, y en el que se conjugan no solo riqueza dogmática sino proyecciones prácticas innegables, tanto en sede contractual como en la extracontractual. En efecto, la autora propone la existencia de una genérica carga de diligencia consigo mismo, cuya inobservancia supone que el gravado no pueda traspasar el resultado dañino a un tercero, sino que deba soportarlo él mismo, asumiendo así su autorresponsabilidad. De esta manera la obra resuelve el problema dogmático que significa construir el deber jurídico de evitar el daño, sobre todo en la responsabilidad extracontractual, donde las partes no tienen el deber de lealtad y cooperación que impone la buena fe contractual.




Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law


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In this volume, the Study Group and the Acquis Group present the first academic Draft of a Common Frame of Reference (DCFR). The Draft is based in part on a revised version of the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) and contains Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law in an interim outline edition. It covers the books on contracts and other juridical acts, obligations and corresponding rights, certain specific contracts, and non-contractual obligations. One purpose of the text is to provide material for a possible "political" Common Frame of Reference (CFR) which was called for by the European Commission's Action Plan on a More Coherent European Contract Law of January 2003.




Global Sales and Contract Law


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This comprehensive analysis of domestic and international sales law covering over sixty jurisdictions is the most detailed work in the field. It includes all aspects of a sale of goods transaction and provides answers to complex issues in practice.




International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management


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The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.




The Law of Damages in International Sales


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'Saidov has produced a detailed and highly readable text that considers in turn the methods of limiting damages, the determination of loss and the calculation of damages. It will doubtless become a first point of reference for academics and practitioners alike.' Martin J Doris, Edinburgh Law Review The second edition of this internationally acclaimed book explores damages for breach of an international sales contract, one of the most important and frequently invoked remedies. The focus is on the international contract law instruments such as the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law. The book draws on the experience of some major legal systems and engages with legal scholarship on the international instruments and on contract damages, providing the most comprehensive, in-depth and thorough examination of damages under the instruments to date. The second edition is updated, reflecting the latest developments in legal thinking on contract damages. It incorporates around 60 new cases and now covers more than 370 cases decided by courts and arbitration tribunals from around the world. The new edition is substantially revised, including new commentary on damages for a documentary breach. Truly international in spirit, this book is analytically rigorous and practically oriented, offering distinctive analyses of, and solutions to, some of the most challenging problems surrounding contract damages.




Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management


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Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.




An Introduction to the Law of Contract


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The last edition of this book saw a major restructuring of the whole work, and in particular, to stress the resurgence of freedom of contract ideology, and to introduce some basic economic issues in contract law. In this edition, the general shape and structure of the book have been left untouched, although as with previous editions, the whole work has been completely updated and modernized by replacing old and outdated examples with more modern questions with which the student may be assumed to be more familiar. The aims of the book remain unchanged: to supply a basic introduction, not merely to the law of contract, but also to theories and policies and ideas underlying the subject. In addition, the author has constantly resorted to a modern historical approach, giving the student some sense of how the law has developed over the past 100 years or so. widely recognized as one of the most interesting and innovative books to have been published in the last 25 years, An Introduction to the Law of Contract remains as popular today with students and their teachers as it was when it was first published.







International Sales Law


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Written for international trade lawyers, practitioners and students from common and civil law countries, this casebook is an excellent starting point for learning about the CISG, providing an article-by-article analysis of the Convention. The commentary on each article is accompanied by extracts from cases and associated comparative materials, as well as references to important trade usages such as the INCOTERMS® 2010. The book features a selection of the most significant cases, each of which has been abridged to enable the reader to focus on its essential features and the relevant questions arising from it. The case extracts are accompanied by a comprehensive overview of parallel provisions in other international instruments, uniform projects and domestic laws. The analyses, cases, texts and questions are intended to aid readers in their comparative law and international sales law studies. They are designed to draw attention to the particular issues surrounding specific CISG provisions and to provoke careful consideration of possible solutions. The book is a reference work as well as an introduction to the individual problem areas. In particular, it acts as a preparatory work for the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The inclusion of sample questions and answers also makes it particularly helpful for self-study purposes.