Thomas Kadner-Graziano

Comparative Tort Law

Cases, Materials, and Exercises

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Produktbeschreibung

This book promotes a learning by doing approach to comparative tort law. Students are invited to solve a scenario according to the laws of several jurisdictions and to reflect upon the most appropriate approach and solution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 174mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1162g
• ISBN-13: 9781138567733
• ISBN-10: 1138567736
• Artikelnr.: 52377686

Autorenporträt

Thomas KADNER GRAZIANO is Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and visiting professor at KU Leuven. He holds a doctoral degree from Goethe-University Frankfurt, an LLM degree from Harvard Law School, and a professorial degree from Humboldt-University of Berlin. He was a faculty member of the DUKE-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law (2004, 2010) and has held visiting professorships, teaching comparative law at the Universities of Potsdam (1997), Poitiers (2006), Florida (1996, 2006-10), Exeter (2007-08), Kaunas (2009, 2013, 2014), Vilnius (2014), Lausanne (2015), KU Leuven (since 2015), and Renmin (People's) University of China (Beijing and Suzhou, 2016), and has taught seminars in comparative law at the Universities of Johannesburg (2015) and Luxembourg (since 2016). He is Fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL), Vienna, and has acted as an expert on comparative law and comparative private international law, including for the European Parliament and in international proceedings before the UN Security Council's Compensation Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

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