Description
Comparative Tort Law promotes a ‘learning by doing’ approach to comparative tort law and comparative methodology. Each chapter starts with a case scenario followed by questions and expertly selected material, such as: legislation, extracts of case law, soft law principles, and (where appropriate) extracts of legal doctrine. Using this material, students are invited to:
• solve the proposed scenario according to the laws of several jurisdictions;
• compare the approaches and solutions they have identified;
• evaluate their respective pros and cons; and
• reflect upon the most appropriate approach and solution.
This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of comparative tort law and comparative law methodology and is the ideal companion for those wishing to both familiarise themselves with real-world materials and understand the many diverse approaches to modern tort law.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Translations
List of abbreviations
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
