Comparative Tort Law

Preface

Acknowledgements

Translations

List of abbreviations

PART A Introduction

Chapter 1 Tort law in the 21st century - the purpose of this book

Chapter 2 A case-oriented and multilateral approach to the teaching, studying, and learning of comparative law: the approach used in this book

Chapter 3 Is it legitimate and beneficial for judges to compare?

Chapter 4 The Principles of European Tort Law - a brief introduction and analysis

PART B Case studies

Chapter 5 Conditions and limits of extra-contractual liability - cable cases

Chapter 6 Fault-based liability and the required standard of care: the case of damage caused by minors

Chapter 7 Fault-based liability in action: challenges of establishing fault (and alternative regimes) - the example of sports accidents

Chapter 8 Liability without fault - a ruptured water main: casum sentit dominus?

Chapter 9 Most common cases: traffic accidents

Chapter 10 Liability in cases of uncertain causation - "all or nothing" or partial compensation in relation to the probability of causation?

Chapter 11 Damage suffered by secondary victims: the case of psychiatric injury, "nervous shock", or "post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" following the loss or severe injury of a loved one

Chapter 12 Damage suffered by secondary victims: damages for pure emotional harm following the loss or severe injury of a loved one

Chapter 13 Liability for others - the case of liability of parents for damage caused by their children

Chapter 14 Pure economic loss: the case of liability for wrongful information and advice

Chapter 15 Protection of privacy and the purposes of tort law

Chapter 16 Damage to public goods: the case of damage to the environment, pure ecological damage in particular

Chapter 17 Comparative tort litigation - an introduction, with a focus on the costs of lawsuits

Chapter 18 Cross-border torts: coordinating legal diversity through Private International Law - an introduction

Chapter 19 Epilogue: tort law in context - and potential alternatives to tort liability

Table of codal and statutory provisions

Index