Comparative tort law : cases, materials and exercises /
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
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Table of Contents:
- Tort law in the 21st century - the purpose of this book
- A case-oriented and multilateral approach to the teaching, studying, and learning of comparative law : the approach used in this book
- Is it legitimate and beneficial for judges to compare?
- The principles of European Tort Law - a brief introduction and analysis
- Conditions and limits of extra-contractual liability - cable cases
- Fault-based liability and the required standard of care : the case of damage caused by minors
- Fault-based liability in action : challenges of establishing fault (and alternative regimes) - the example of sports accidents
- Liability without fault - a ruptured water main : casum sentit dominus?
- Most common cases : traffic accidents
- Liability in cases of uncertain causation - "all or nothing" or partial compensation in relation to the probability of causation?
- 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
- Damage suffered by secondary victims : damages for pure emotional harm following the loss or severe injury of a loved one
- Liability for others - the case of liability of parents for damage caused by their children
- Pure economic loss : the case of liability for wrongful information and advice
- Protection of privacy and the purposes of tort law
- Damage to public goods : the case of damage to the environment, pure ecological damage in particular
- Comparative tort litigation - an introduction, with a focus on the costs of lawsuits
- Cross-border torts : coordinating legal diversity through Private International Law - an introduction
- Epilogue : tort law in context - and potential alternatives to tort liability