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The impact of institutions and professions on legal development / edited by Paul Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torts--Europe--Interpretation and construction.
- Torts.
- Liability (Law)--Europe.
- Liability (Law).
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Other Title:
- The Impact of Institutions & Professions on Legal Development
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Legal professions and legal institutions have a profound influence on the direction and form of legal change, but it is often difficult to identify exactly how and why such influence has been exerted. Even those individuals directly involved in bringing about changes may not realise the full impact of professional and institutional factors, since these factors often form part of the participants' own assumed roles. This collection of essays casts light on how one particularly important legal category, fault liability, has been shaped by legal professions and institutions between 1850 and 2000. Its unique comparative approach highlights how different legal systems generate very different pressures for change, and how actors' perceptions of their own roles can have a profound effect on how changes take effect.
- Contents:
- The impact of institutions and professions on fault liability in England / Paul Mitchell
- The impact of institutions and professions on compensation for occupational injury in England / Peter Bartrip
- The impact of institutions and professions in Scotland / Elspeth Reid
- The impact of institutions and professions in France / Paula Giliker
- The impact of institutions and professions in Germany / Jens M. Scherpe
- The impact of institutions and professions in the Netherlands / Esther Engelhard and Ivo Giesen
- The impact of institutions and professions in Spain / Isabel GonzÁlez Pacanowska and Martin García-Ripoll Montijano
- The impact of institutions and professions in Sweden / Mårten Schultz.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139196314
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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