Duncan Fairgrieve is Director of the Tort Law Centre at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and is also Maître de Conférences at Sciences Po, Paris.
Foreword Sir Michael Burton
1. Introduction Duncan Fairgrieve and Luis Gonzalez Vaque
Part I. Country Reports: 2. The use of comparative law Michael Brooke, Ian Forrester, Nicholas Underhill and Sir Michael Burton
3. Spanish product liability today - adapting to the 'new' rules Miquel Martin-Casals
4. Interaction between the European directive on product liability and the former liability regime in Italy Eleonora Rajneri
5. L'Exception Francaise? The French law of product liability Duncan Fairgrieve
6. German product liability law Stefan Lenze
7. Dutch case law on the EU Cees C. van Dam
8. Defect in English Law - lessons for the harmonisation of European product liability Geraint Howells
Part II. European Influences: 9. Product liability Hans Claudius Taschner
10. The development risks defence Mark Mildred
11. Approaches to product liability in the EU and Member States Christopher Hodges
12. Product liability - a history Geraint Howells
Part III. Comparing Systems: 13. Harmonisation or divergence? Simon Taylor
14. Product liability law in Centre Europe and the true impact of the product liability directive Magdalena Sengayen
15. Bugs in Anglo-American products liability Jane Stapleton
16. Comparing product safety and liability law in Japan Luke Nottage
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