Product Description: Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore, European nationals increasingly join class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about the law of damages in Europe and America...read more

Product Description: Recently the contract section of the German code was radically amended after one hundred years of unaltered existence. The German Law of Contract-radically recast, enlarged, and re-written-now details and explains for the first time these changes for the benefit of Anglophone lawyers...read more

Product Description: Federalism remains a highly contentious issue in the UK. A substantial amount of devolution has already become part of the local landscape and more may follow. With the competence for a number of policies thus shifting from Westminster to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and in future perhaps even within England itself, foreign experience with federal and regional structures becomes a valuable source of ideas...read more

Product Description: This book presents an original, deliberately controversial and, at times, disturbing appraisal of the state of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century: its weaknesses, its strengths, and its protagonists (most of whom were personally known to the author)...read more

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Since its first appearance in 1986 this book has won uniform praise from many of the world's leading comparatists, has been acclaimed by senior judges, and has been cited by the courts of many countries. This new edition of the work, substantially rewritten and systematically updated, contains over 150 leading judgments, most translated in their entirety, along with references to over 2,000 other decisions from Germany and the common law world. While the book remains an ideal tool for teaching comparative torts and comparative methodology, the fact that it has been extensively rewritten and enlarged now also makes it an indispensable source of inspiration for those with a professional interest in tort litigation and tort reform. Topics discussed include economic loss, psychiatric injury, wrongful birth, life and sterilization cases, products liability, traffic accidents, accidents at work, environmental liability and compensation for personal injuries and death.

Product Description: Europe is one of the defining issues of our times. Politically, economically, legally, culturally, it is a source of division to some and inspiration for others. This book contains essays written by eminent authors to celebrate the Centenary of the British Academy, the country's leading academic institution for Social Sciences and the Humanities...read more

Product Description: Following the successful publication of his first volume4 of essays intitled FOREIGN LAW AND COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGY professor Markesinis continues his quest for the best way of presenting foreign law to Common law readers. This second volume thus contains essays on methodology: the horizontal application of human rights; the tortious liability of statutory bodies; the growing impact of human rights law on our law of torts; the differing approaches to problems raised by action for wrongful life and wrongful birth; differing judicial styles and what they can tell us about a foreign system, as well as the growing use of foreign law by British judges in their judicial and extra judicial work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In a number of important decisions such as Stovin V. Wise, X v. Bedfordshire, Barrett v. Enfield London Borough Council and others, English courts have been forced to grapple with the important issues of tortious liability of statutory bodies...read more

Product Description: The right of privacy in the UK is a topic of much controversy between the media and the upholders of such a right. The Human Rights Act is likely to have a considerable impact on UK privacy law, introducing in the UK some of the principles which have long been in force in other European states as a result of the European Convention of Human Rights...read more

Product Description: This year a much anticipated Bill of Rights is to be submitted to the British House of Lords. This work examines the effect such a piece of legislation will have on various aspects of English law, including its potential influence on company and commercial law, freedom of speech, and criminal law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The second volume in an annual series based on lectures held at the Center for European Law Studies in Oxford, this volume examines the respective roles in the legal process of judges, legislators, academics, and regulators, as well as the ways in which these players influence one another...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With its companion volume, "The Law of Torts", this two-volume work provides a full scale treatise on the German Law of Obligations (Contract, Restitution and Tort) written in a comparative way and with a Common Law reader in mind...read more

Product Description: Described in the Cambridge Law Journal as 'an intellectual achievement of the highest order' and 'a landmark in comparative legal studies' Professor Markesinis' book has earned a reputation among scholars and students as a truly monumental work of scholarship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This selection of essays by the leading comparative lawyer,Basil Markesinis, provides a compilation of his most stimulating and authoritative work. It brings together for the first time writings which capture the essence of his pioneering approach to comparative law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first volume in what is intended to be an annual series designed to publish lectures delivered at the Centre for European Law Studies in Oxford. These lectures have been sponsored by one of Britain's largest law firms, Clifford Chance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The theme of this study is "Learning from Europe." The contributors discuss concrete areas of the law in which there are underlying similarities and common problems in the major European Law systems. The picture which emerges is one of the growing "Europeanization" of English law, and of the spreading influence of European judicial styles throughout the English legal system...read more

Product Description: Since its first publication, this book has succeeded in establishing itself as the leading reference work on German tort law. It is a uniquely detailed and scholarly study which has no rival in the English language. Frequently cited in the courts when points of German law are under discussion, the book has now been heavily revised and completely updated to take account of the major changes to German law brought about as a result of reunification...read more

Product Description: This new fourth edition has been completely revised and updated to take account of developments since the last edition and a new section on vicarious liability has been added. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Lawson, F. H., Markesinis, B. S.