Report on the french avant-projet de réforme de la responsabilité civile

Rapport sur l'avant projet de réforme de la responsabilité civile

Alex-Geert Castermans (1) , Thijs Beumers (1) , Ruben de Graaff (1) , Gitta Veldt (1) , Benjamin Moron-Puech (2, 3) , Maxime Cormier (3) , Clément Cousin (4, 3) , Alice Dejean de La Batie (3) , Emmanuelle Lemaire (3) , Marie Leveneur-Azémar (3) , Thijs Vancoppernolle (5)

1 Institute for Private Law
2 LSJ - Laboratoire de sociologie juridique
3 LDC - Laboratoire de Droit Civil
4 IODE - Institut de l'Ouest : Droit et Europe
5 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

After a meeting in Paris during which the director of the bureau de droit des obligations explained some of the needs of the ministry to us, we chose two main topics of study: the mitigation of damages and concurrence of action. However, beyond this focus some of our members were able to shed light on some further particular problems. This led us to create an additional section dedicated to some separate themes such as private penalty or the question of links. From this experimental work the topic of imputation and causation was addressed.We also added some relevant topics such as proportionality and transition law. More precisely, we conceived our work as an exchange between laws, leading us to build two national reports and comparing them.

Keywords: Torts law; Contract law

Keywords: Droit des contrats

Domains: Law

Alex-Geert Castermans, Thijs Beumers, Ruben de Graaff, Gitta Veldt, Benjamin Moron-Puech, et al.. Report on the french avant-projet de réforme de la responsabilité civile. [Research Report] Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II); Leiden University. 2016. ⟨hal-01373466⟩