Common law and civil law perspectives on tort law / Mauro Bussani, Anthony J. Sebok, & Marta Infantino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bussani, Mauro, author.

Sebok, Anthony James, 1963- author.

Infantino, Marta, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This text provides scholars, lawyers, and law students with a comparative overview of the law of civil liability for injuries arising outside of contract in five major legal systems in the common law and civil law traditions: England, the United States, France, Germany, and Italy. The book analyzes a number of foundational issues that lie at the core of tort law in all the jurisdictions surveyed, and takes them as points of comparison for appreciating commonalities and differences between the common law and the civil law traditions, as well as within each of these traditions. The analysis covers the structure and context of tort law architectures, the role of negligence and the continuum between fault and strict liability, rules on recovery for personal injuries, non-economic losses and for pure economic losses, tests and approaches to causation, medical, and products liability regimes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 6, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2022.

ISBN:

9780199365975

0-19-936598-9