What is vicarious liability?
Establishing a general framework for liability
The employer/employee relationship : identifying the contract of employment
Special difficulties : borrowed employees and temporary workers
Other relationships giving rise to liability
Acting in the course of one's employment/functions/assigned tasks : determining the scope of vicarious liability
Parental liability for the torts of their children : a new form of vicarious liability?
Understanding vicarious liability : reconciling policy and principle
A postscript : a harmonised European law of vicarious liability?
Annex : Key provisions of the French and German Civil Codes.
