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- Reasons and Context in Comparative Law
- Reasons and Context in Comparative Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface: John Bell
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Can Law Schools Offer Other Disciplines?
- 3 Examining Vicarious Liability Comparatively
- 4 What’s in a Name?
- 5 ‘An Art Obscured with Difficult Cases’
- 6 Observations on the Reform of the French Law on Contractual Interpretation
- 7 Assessing (Divergent) Legal Development
- 8 Roundabout Law
- 9 A Comparative Reflection on Chilean Economic Torts
- 10 Judicial Identity Crises
- 11 Researching Judicial Cultures in the European Union
- John Bell’s Principal Publications
- Index
9 - A Comparative Reflection on Chilean Economic Torts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2023
- Reasons and Context in Comparative Law
- Reasons and Context in Comparative Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface: John Bell
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Can Law Schools Offer Other Disciplines?
- 3 Examining Vicarious Liability Comparatively
- 4 What’s in a Name?
- 5 ‘An Art Obscured with Difficult Cases’
- 6 Observations on the Reform of the French Law on Contractual Interpretation
- 7 Assessing (Divergent) Legal Development
- 8 Roundabout Law
- 9 A Comparative Reflection on Chilean Economic Torts
- 10 Judicial Identity Crises
- 11 Researching Judicial Cultures in the European Union
- John Bell’s Principal Publications
- Index
Summary
This chapter reflects on Chilean extracontractual liability between commercial competitors for pure economic loss from an English viewpoint. It shows that while the principles and rules contained in the Chilean Civil Code (1855) were not developed by litigation in this area, there were hundreds of cases and court decisions in the years following the enactment of the Unfair Competition Act 2007. Although the case law under the Unfair Competition Act 2007 lacks the degree of originality and depth peculiar to the common law, the specific construction of the 2007 Unfair Competition Act by the Chilean courts is illuminated by a comparison with the English approach to this topic.
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- Reasons and Context in Comparative LawEssays in Honour of John Bell, pp. 197 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023