Knock-for-Knock Indemnities and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

Contractual Limitation and Delictual Liability
Redaktion: Svendsen, Kristoffer; Gordon, Greg; Stavang, Endre

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines contractual limitation, principles and practice through the use of knock-for-knock indemnity clauses. The book is useful for lawyers, economists and businesspeople who draft, negotiates or manage contracts in all industries where liability is dealt with in this way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000834031
• Artikelnr.: 67443821

Autorenporträt

Dr. Kristoffer Svendsen is Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger and Kristiania University College. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Tulane Center for Energy Law and an Associate Member of Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. Kristoffer is specialized in the interaction of petroleum law, environmental law and tort law. His research interests are conventional energy law, renewable energy law, torts and contracts. Kristoffer has been working in Brussels, Moscow, and the USA, and is admitted as an Attorney-at-law in New York and a solicitor in New South Wales. Dr. Endre Stavang is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo and was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (2012-2013). He initiated the Research Group on Natural Resource Law at the University of Oslo and leads its property team. Endre's scholarship focuses on property theory, liability regimes, environmental law, and law and economics. Stavang was a Fulbright research scholar for one year at Yale Law School and has hands on experience as an appellate court judge and an in-house oil, gas, and energy lawyer in Norway. Dr. Greg Gordon is Professor of Law and Head of School of Law at University of Aberdeen. He previously served as Deputy Head of School and as the Co-Director for Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. Before joining the University of Aberdeen, Greg worked in Aberdeen and London as a solicitor specialising in litigation, primarily in the oil and gas sector. His principal teaching and research interests are in energy law (particularly upstream oil and gas law), delict/tort and commercial contracting. Greg is an editorial board member of the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia, a local committee member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors Preface, List of Contributors, PART I
SELECTED TOPICS, 1. The Development of Knock
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Knock Clauses in the last 15 years, 2. An Introduction to Risk Allocation in Oil and Gas Contracts from an English Law Perspective, 3. Contracting around Tort Defaults: the Knock
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Knock Prinicple and Accident Costs, 4. On Knock
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Knock Clauses and Their Optimal Regulation, 5. Knock
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Knock Indemnity Provisions and Liability Insurance: Potentially Strange but Always Complicated Bedfellow, 6. Effect of Choice
of
Law on Knock
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Knock Clauses, PART 2
KNOCK
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KNOCK IN SPECIFIC JURISDICTIONS, 7. Indemnity clauses in fabrication and construction contracts in Norway, 7a. Limiting and Channeling Liability under Offshore Construction Contracts in Norway, 7b. The Obligation to Insure the Contract Object as Part of a Knock
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Knock Agreement in Norway, 8. Liability and Insurance Clauses in Contracts for Vessel Services in the Norwegian Offshore Sector
the Knock for Knock Principle, 9. Contractual Risk Allocation in Upstream Oil and Gas vs. Statutory Liability Regulation: the Norwegian Situation, 10. Applying Knock
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Knock in Germany, 11. Knock
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Knock under Brazilian Law, 12. The Implications of Litigation Post Deepwater Horizon on Knock
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Knock Clauses in U.S. Law, 13. Hold Harmless Clauses in France and Francophone Civil Law Systems, 14. Lessons from the Application of Knock
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Knock Clauses under Malaysian Law, 15. Index