Full Description
This intriguing collection explores how tort law has evolved in the 21st century, as it responds to emerging social, industrial, and technological challenges.
It examines topics with particular modern-day salience such as AI and negligence, and internet harassment and privacy. The contributors are recognised experts in their fields, and they bring a broader common law perspective to the question. This is an extremely important contribution to scholarship in the field.
Contents
Part One: New Worries
1. Newcomer Injunctions Against Protestors and Travellers, Roderick Bagshaw and John Murphy
2. Internet-Inflicted Harms: New Wrongs or Just New Contexts?, Erika Chamberlain
3. Cars and Drones and Robots, Oh My! Tort Law as a Safety Net for Harms Caused by Autonomous Machines, Jodi Gardner and Alexandra Andhov
4. Three Dangerous Ideas in the Law on Liability for Omissions in Negligence, Nicholas J McBride
Part Two: Bigger Pictures
5. Dynamic Torts and Dynamic Facts? Social Change, Social Facts and the Evolution of Tort Law, Kylie Burns
6. Future Tort Architecture, Matthew Dyson
7. Tort Law and the Rule of Law, James Goudkamp
8. Reflecting on Haley Six Decades On: Current Duty of Care Conundrums Regarding Disability in Negligence, Rachael Mulheron
Part Three: Unresolved Problems
9. The Elusive Justification for Vicarious Liability - A Matter of Proof?, Christine Beuermann
10. The Illegality Doctrine in Tort: 'Characteristic English Impurity'?, Jonathan Morgan
11. What is Personal Injury?, Donal Nolan
12. Vicarious Liability: Three Historical Scenes, Christian Witting
