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. KATERINA MITKIDIS is an associate professor at the Department of Law, Aarhus University

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface



Introduction
Vibe Ulfbeck, Alexandra Andhov & Katerina 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
Katerina 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