Author : Philipp Hujo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 3640083202
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: Upper 2nd , University of Warwick, course: Common Law, language: English, abstract: This essay will first provide a presentation of the possible objectives of an action for damages in tort. The various aims mentioned in the statement above shall then be classified and in a second step verified with illustration of current developments in case law.
Author : V.H. Harpwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135252998
Modern Tort Law is a comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the law of torts. Now in its seventh edition, Vivienne Harpwood’s popular, student-friendly text explains the principles of all aspects of tort law in a lively and thought-provoking manner. The broad coverage of modern tort law makes this an ideal textbook for any undergraduate tort law course. Students are encouraged to understand and apply the principles of tort law effectively throughout and particular attention is paid to the context within which the law is evolving, making these topics both accessible and enjoyable. This seventh edition has been revised and updated to take into account developments since publication of the previous edition including in the areas of privacy, negligence, personal injury and defamation. Human Rights issues are integrated throughout the text rather than treating the topic in isolation, in line with the way the subject is commonly taught. Now more accessible and student-friendly, it includes: advice on further reading at the end of each chapter which is intended to point students towards sources of further study and critical debate new chapter introductions, rewritten to reflect learning outcomes. Modern Tort Law is now supported by a Companion Website which offers lecturer resources available to adopters of the book, including ‘think points’ designed to encourage reflection and debate and PowerPoints of diagrams and flowcharts contained within the text. A dedicated student section also offers weblinks, a guide to key Tort law cases, a flashcard glossary and a test bank of multiple choice questions.
Author : John C. P. Goldberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674246527
Two preeminent legal scholars explain what tort law is all about and why it matters, and describe their own view of tort’s philosophical basis: civil recourse theory. Tort law is badly misunderstood. In the popular imagination, it is “Robin Hood” law. Law professors, meanwhile, mostly dismiss it as an archaic, inefficient way to compensate victims and incentivize safety precautions. In Recognizing Wrongs, John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky explain the distinctive and important role that tort law plays in our legal system: it defines injurious wrongs and provides victims with the power to respond to those wrongs civilly. Tort law rests on a basic and powerful ideal: a person who has been mistreated by another in a manner that the law forbids is entitled to an avenue of civil recourse against the wrongdoer. Through tort law, government fulfills its political obligation to provide this law of wrongs and redress. In Recognizing Wrongs, Goldberg and Zipursky systematically explain how their “civil recourse” conception makes sense of tort doctrine and captures the ways in which the law of torts contributes to the maintenance of a just polity. Recognizing Wrongs aims to unseat both the leading philosophical theory of tort law—corrective justice theory—and the approaches favored by the law-and-economics movement. It also sheds new light on central figures of American jurisprudence, including former Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Benjamin Cardozo. In the process, it addresses hotly contested contemporary issues in the law of damages, defamation, malpractice, mass torts, and products liability.
Author : John G. Fleming
Publisher : Law Book Company for New South Wales Bar Association
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN :
This textbook still stands as one of the leading works of scholarship on Australian tort law. Fleming's coverage draws on authorities in Australia & other common law jurisdictions, providing a thorough analysis for student & practitioner alike. A clear, precise & comprehensive statement of modern tort law, it is founded on a strong philosophical examination of this central area of the law.
Author : Ernest J. Weinrib
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199660646
Private law governs our most pervasive relationships: the wrongs we do one another, the contracts we make and break, and the property we own. This book analyses the deepest questions about the law's foundations, showing how a distinctive notion of justice, 'corrective justice', describes the special morality intrinsic to private law.
Author : Ariel Porat
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198267973
Providing a comprehensive and principled account of the uncertainty problem that arises in tort litigation, this text critically examines the existing doctrinal solutions of the problem, as evolved in England, United States, Canada & Israel.
Author : Matthew Dyson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139993356
Tort law and criminal law are closely bound together but their relationship rarely receives sustained and rigorous scrutiny. This is the first significant project in England and Wales to address that shortcoming. Building on growing interest amongst both academics and practitioners in the relationship between tort and crime, it draws together leading experts to chart the field and explore key points of interest. It uses a range of perspectives from legal theory, doctrine, legal history and comparative law to address some of the most important and interesting links between tort and crime. Examples include how the illegality defence operates to avoid stultification of the law, the difference between criminal and civil causation, how the Motor Insurers' Bureau not only insures but acts to enforce laws and alter behaviour, and why civil law only very rarely restores specific property but the criminal law does it daily.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Liability (Law)
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth D. Cooper-Stephenson
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Damages
ISBN : 9780921801870
Author : Peter Cane
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1997-06-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1901362094
Written to be accessible to all readers with a basic knowledge of tort law, this book adopts an approach which is both easily comprehended, yet also innovative and illuminating. It sets out a new and theoretically stimulating analysis of the law of tort, in which the subject is reconceived as a system of ethical rules and principles of personal responsibility. As such it can be viewed as a series of relationships between protected interests, sanctioned conduct and sanctions. These are the "building blocks" of tort law. Beyond affording a means of comprehending the fragmentary nature of tort law, the book, equally importantly, seeks to develop understanding of its relationship with other areas of the law of obligations. It also permits clearer understanding of the relationship between common law and statutory torts and throws fresh light on the links between tort law and its functions.
