Law and Responsible Supply Chain Management

VIBE ULFBECK is a professor of private law at the Law Faculty at the University of Copenhagen. ALEXANDRA ANDHOV (JUDr., LL.M., S.J.D.) is assistant professor of corporate law at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. KATEŘINA MITKIDIS is an associate professor at the Department of Law, Aarhus University

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface






Introduction
Vibe Ulfbeck, Alexandra Andhov & Kateřina Mitkidis

Part I. Contract law




From international law to national law: The opportunities and limits of contractual CSR supply chain governance
Kasey McCall-Smith and Andreas Rühmkorf




Contractual enforcement of CSR clauses and the protection of weak parties in the supply chain
Vibe Ulfbeck, Ole Hansen and Alexandra Andhov




Enforcement of sustainability contractual clauses in supply chains by third parties
Kateřina Mitkidis

Part II. Tort law




Direct and vicarious liability in supply chains
Vibe Ulfbeck and Andreas Ehlers




Liability for "greenwashing"?: On unfair commercial practices, the legal duty to be transparent and the case for a ‘safe harbor’
Louise A. Vytopil

Part III. Interplay and overlap of contract and tort law




Interplay between contract and tort in the supply chain
Vibe Ulfbeck and Ole Hansen




Developing supply chain liability: A necessary marriage of contract and tort?

Jaakko Salminen and Vibe Ulfbeck

Index