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Responsibility, Restoration and Fault' suggests how we could measure responsible behaviour. What criteria do our actions have to abide by to protect individuals and society? This is particularly relevant in a period where modern technology has not only multiplied the risks and degree of damage, but also created long causal chains that often make it difficult to see a connection between action and damage, and when the damaging effects on individuals or society only emerge decades later.00The author argues that a person?s behaviour is responsible if the following criteria are fulfilled simultaneously: (i) the person, whose behaviour could cause damage, would be able to restore the victim, (ii) the person, whose behaviour causes actual damage, restores the victim (both, criteria of restoration) and (iii) the person is not at fault when determining and executing an act (criteria of fault)

Am Anfang und am Ende des Lebens stehen zahlreiche Fragen, die in den Grenzbereichen zwischen Recht, Philosophie und Theologie zu kontroversen Diskussionen führen. Nicht nur diese Disziplinen, sondern auch die (medizinische) Praxis sieht sich hier regelmäßig mit Problemen konfrontiert. Einen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand bieten die Referate der Tagung 'Ethik und Recht in der Bioethik' an der Universität Luzern: Sie beleuchten Themen von der Präimplantationsdiagnostik über die Reproduktionsmedizin und die Forschung am Menschen bis hin zum Hirntod und zur Organtransplantation, zu Sterbehilfe und Patientenverfügungen. DieAufsätze erschließen dabei den aktuellen Forschungsstand, hinterfragen bestehende Annahmen und entwickeln neue Ansätze.De nos jours, l'on se pose de nombreuses questions en corrélation avec le début et la fin de la vie humaine. Ces questions fondamentales situent (souvent) le débat théorique aux frontières de plusieurs disciplines dont le droit, la philosophie et la théologie. Mais aussi la pratique notamment médicale est directement concernée. Le colloque « Ethique et droit dans la bioéthique » qui s'est déroulé à l'Université de Lucerne donne un aperçu actuel de la recherché: Les orateurs ont abordés des thèmes tels que le diagnostique génétique préimplantatoire en lien avec la médecine de reproduction, la recherche sur l'homme dans sa période de fin de vie, ainsi que la mort cérébrale et l'euthanasie, la transplantation d'organes ou encore les directives anticipées. Les contributions reprennent non seulement les conclusions de l'état actuel de la recherche mais posent aussi un ?il critique sur les développements et perspectives à venir.

The various national European legal systems offer a broad range of responses to the question of what can be regarded as wrongful behaviour or fault. The present work systematically examines these two important prerequisites for tortious liability under the combined heading of 'misconduct'. Unlike current textbooks, national casebooks and monographs, it builds on the experiences gathered in the national legal systems over the past decades and thereby fills a major gap which still exists today. It thus does what the previous volumes in the 'Digest of European Tort Law' series did for other key elements of tort law, namely natural causation and damage. Once again, the publication contains a selection of the most important cases from 28 states across Europe as well as cases handed down by European Union courts; it also highlights cases from earlier periods of legal history. For each case, the facts and the relevant court decision are presented and these are then accompanied by an analytical commentary. In addition, the editors provide comparative analyses of the cases reported and a special report is dedicated to how key decisions would be resolved under model European rules on tort law. The editors believe that the material gathered here may provide guidance for an organic convergence of the national legal systems in Europe. It constitutes the basis of an acquis commun that is infinitely richer (though also much more complex) than the rather bland and abstract concepts contained in national codifications, European legislation and modern model rules.