Product Description: This book is dedicated to the Law and Economics analysis of civil liability of securities underwriters, for the damage caused by material misstatements of corporate information by securities issuers. It starts by looking at securities underwriters from a practical and business perspective, asserting that they are undeniably indispensable and central figures in the process of securities offering...read more

Product Description: The new edition of European Tort Law provides an extensive revision and update of the only English language handbook in this constantly evolving area. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on the latest developments in legislation, legal literature, and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the highest courts in France, Germany, and England...read more

Product Description: This handbook analyzes private law as it evolves in an increasingly integrated Europe. Volume II includes essays on special aspects of contract and tort law, including the law of sales, as well as essays on (unfair) competition, environmental liability, corporate law, and the law of trusts...read more

Product Description: Non-contractual liability, stemming from damage accountably caused to another, has been the subject of the PETL and DCFR VI European reform initiatives. Gert Brüggemeier, however, proposes alternative reforms which, instead of trying to overcome the differences between civil law (delict) and common law (torts), are restricted to civil liability...read more

Product Description: This volume analyses thirteen cases, from the perspective of sixteen national European legal systems, in order to explore the legal nature of the precontractual phase and the liability which may follow a break-off of precontractual negotiations...read more

Product Description: This book provides reliable information on private law in an increasingly integrated Europe. It contains a collection of specially commissioned essays, including contributions on: corporation law, trust, law of sales, competition law, products liability, personal injuries law, limitation periods, the harmonization of European private law, and more...read more

Product Description: In every society, tort law plays a crucial role in the actual life of the legal system and of the people using it. Whenever relationships between individuals do not converge towards a contract nor are absorbed by property law, then comes the time for tort law rules to provide justice...read more

Product Description: Tort law or damages liability is of growing concern for businesses, governments and individuals all over Europe. The liability rules in Europe, however, differ considerably. European Tort Law gives a quick and sound introduction into the various aspects of English, French, German and European Union tort law, written in a concise yet clear way...read more

Product Description: This book compares the liability rules on injury caused through services provided in the private sector. Although services are generally rendered on a contractual basis, the book nonetheless includes both contractual and tortious liability...read more

Product Description: The Foundations to tort law in European legal systems differ considerably. Until recently, there has been no attempt to harmonize the entire field of tort law in a consistent and comprehensive manner. A group of tort law experts, the European group on Tort Law, is currently engaged in systematically researching the most fundamental questions underlying the various tort law systems...read more

Product Description: The foundations of tort law and the law of damages differ considerably in the various European legal systems. Until recently, there was no attempt to harmonize this important field in a consistent and comprehensive manner. A group of tort law experts, the European Group of Tort Law, is currently engaged in systematically researching the most fundamental questions of many European and several non-European legal systems...read more

Product Description: The Liber Amicorum Pierre Widmer honours an outstanding tort lawyer and leading author of the recent reform of Swiss Tort Law. Renowned tort lawyers from 11 jurisdictions present questions of interest in tort law today. These include current reform projects in various European countries as well as EU-legislation...read more

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