Analysis of the difficulties primary and secondary schools have in school accidents based on economics of law

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10.2991/ichssd-19.2019.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

School accidents, School responsibility, Economics of law, Minimization of social costs

Abstract

Primary and secondary school accidents involve many conflicting interests, complex relations and have a big social impact. While the whole society emphasizes the protection of the interests of minors, the interests of the school, as the main body of responsibility distribution, are often ignored. This paper intends to analyze the dilemma of school to undertake responsibility in primary and secondary school accidents from the perspective of law and economics, and holds that the ambiguity of legislation makes the judges have to refer to administrative norms in the practice of hearing school accidents. However, administrative norms with different leniency and strictness give rise to a large number of similar cases with different judgments. The Tort Law, based on civil law principles, confirms schools’ liability for accidents on campus in order to protect the interests of minors. Nevertheless, weak financial conditions of schools are likely to stimulate itself to transfer all the costs to the victims in school accidents.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Chen Zeng
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Analysis of the difficulties primary and secondary schools have in school accidents based on economics of law
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 4th International Conference on Humanities Science and Society Development (ICHSSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 535
EP  - 539
SN  - 2352-5398
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