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.

This revised edition offers an updated and enriched framework for analyzing and understanding the current state of tort law around the world. It examines common issues such as causation, economic and non-economic damages, product and professional liability, and the relationship between tort law and crime, insurance and public welfare schemes from tort systems in Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, India and Russia.

This accessible textbook provides an introductory guide to tort law, with a structured explanation of the key concepts and doctrines. Using a comparative approach, the discussion is illustrated with case law and provisions from three key jurisdictions: England, France and Germany. With liberal reference to other codes and cases from around the world, the book gives readers a contextual understanding and will appeal to classes with a global outlook.

Tort law, the law of how the costs of accidents and other harms should be allocated, is part of America's larger story of social conflict and progress. This book fully recounts tort law's place in that story.

This title is a part of the COMMON LAW LIBRARY series.
It offers the most comprehensive coverage of Torts, providing the end user with indispensable access to current, frequent and unrivalled authoritative information on all aspects of tort law. This edition brings the work completely up-to-date including those arising from the Defamation Act 2013 and the developments in all of the key case law, including relevant decisions from the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.

This title is part of the HART STUDIES IN PRIVATE LAW series.
Focusing mainly on common law principles, it looks particularly at the treatment of such causes of action in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore as well as other common law jurisdictions

This text provides a variety of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its likely development, always placing the subject in its socio-economic context thereby giving students a deeper and richer understanding of tort law.

This title is part of the HART STUDIES IN PRIVATE LAW series.
It focuses on how economic torts play a key role in the development of private law more generally and whether the economic torts can be unified. This book argues that the search for unity is a will o' the wisp and shows that although some juridical connections exist between some of these torts, there is far more that separates them than unites them.

This edition explores damages under the Human Rights Act 1998, and negotiating damages. It also offers an analysis of Supreme Court decisions on key areas such as: negotiating damages; damages for death; on penalty clauses; and on equitable remedies for equitable wrongs.

This title is part of the HART STUDIES IN PRIVATE LAW series.
The goal of this book is to reduce the size of this substantial gap in our understanding of tort law. The principal way in which it attempts to do so is by developing a taxonomy of defenses. The book shows that much can be learned about a given defense from the way in which it is classified.