Common law and civil law perspectives on tort law /
"The book provides scholars, lawyers and law students with a comparative overview of the law of civil liability for injuries arising outside of contract in five major legal systems in the common law and civil law traditions: England, the United States, France, Germany and Italy. The book analyz...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The book provides scholars, lawyers and law students with a comparative overview of the law of civil liability for injuries arising outside of contract in five major legal systems in the common law and civil law traditions: England, the United States, France, Germany and Italy. The book analyzes a number of foundational issues that lie at the core of tort law in all the jurisdictions surveyed, and takes them as points of comparison for appreciating commonalities and differences between the common law and the civil law traditions, as well as within each of these traditions. The analysis covers the structure and context of tort law architectures, the role of negligence and the continuum between fault and strict liability, rules on recovery for personal injuries, non-economic losses and for pure economic losses, tests and approaches to causation, medical and products liability regimes. As such, the book provides an updated and enriched framework for understanding the rules, theories, styles of reasoning, and cultures of tort law across the Atlantic"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199365982 0199365989 9780199365975 0199365970 9780199365968 0199365962 |