(eBook PDF) Comparative Law (Law in Context) 2nd Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1316633551
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1316633557
• Author: Mathias Siems

Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars of comparative law alike, critically debating both traditional and modern approaches to the subject and using examples from a range of legal systems gives the reader a truly global perspective. Covering essential academic debates and comparative law methodology, its contextualised approach draws on examples from politics, economics and development studies to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law. This new edition: is fully revised and updated throughout to reflect contemporary research, contains more examples from many areas of law and there is also an increased discussion of the relevance of regional, international, transnational and global laws for comparative law. Suitable for students taking courses in comparative law and related fields, this book offers a fresh contextualised and cosmopolitan perspective on the subject.

table of contents:

PART A Introduction

Chapter 1 Tort law in the 21st century – the purpose of this book

Chapter 2 A case-oriented and multilateral approach to the teaching, studying, and learning of comparative law: the approach used in this book

Chapter 3 Is it legitimate and beneficial for judges to compare?

Chapter 4 The Principles of European Tort Law – a brief introduction and analysis

PART B Case studies

Chapter 5 Conditions and limits of extra-contractual liability – cable cases

Chapter 6 Fault-based liability and the required standard of care: the case of damage caused by minors

Chapter 7 Fault-based liability in action: challenges of establishing fault (and alternative regimes) – the example of sports accidents

Chapter 8 Liability without fault – a ruptured water main: casum sentit dominus?

Chapter 9 Most common cases: traffic accidents

Chapter 10 Liability in cases of uncertain causation – “all or nothing” or partial compensation in relation to the probability of causation?

Chapter 11 Damage suffered by secondary victims: the case of psychiatric injury, “nervous shock”, or “post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” following the loss or severe injury of a loved one

Chapter 12 Damage suffered by secondary victims: damages for pure emotional harm following the loss or severe injury of a loved one

Chapter 13 Liability for others – the case of liability of parents for damage caused by their children

Chapter 14 Pure economic loss: the case of liability for wrongful information and advice

Chapter 15 Protection of privacy and the purposes of tort law

Chapter 16 Damage to public goods: the case of damage to the environment, pure ecological damage in particular

Chapter 17 Comparative tort litigation – an introduction, with a focus on the costs of lawsuits

Chapter 18 Cross-border torts: coordinating legal diversity through Private International Law – an introduction

Chapter 19 Epilogue: tort law in context – and potential alternatives to tort liability

Table of codal and statutory provisions

Index

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