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Medicinal Product Liability and Regulation

This monograph attempts to address the major problems that typify claims for drug-induced injury, as well as highlighting the complex interrelationship between liability exposure and drug regulation.

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The Europeanisation of English Tort Law

Tort law is often regarded as the clearest example of traditional common law reasoning. Yet, in the past 40 years, the common law of England and Wales has been subject to European influences as a...

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Tort Law Defences

While some defences to liability recognised in the law of torts have been explored in detail, the theoretical foundations of defences generally have received scant attention. This book attempts to fill...

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The Law of Private Nuisance

The book is best understood as advancing a suggestion: that the law of nuisance is better understood by rejecting the contemporary understanding of it and beginning again with an approach the focuses...

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Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy

In this book, leading scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia challenge established common law rules and suggest new approaches to both old and emerging problems in tort law.

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Causation in Negligence,

This book's objective is to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached, and...

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Defences in Tort,

This book explores the links between tort law defences on a theoretical level, and examines the nature and scope of individual defences. It will be of value to academics and practitioners alike.

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Tort Reform, Plaintiffs' Lawyers, and Access to Justice

Plaintiffs' lawyers are the civil justice system's gatekeepers, providing meaningful access to the rights the law provides—access that may be significantly undercut by tort reform. Drawing on...

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Law of Misstatements: 50 Years on from Hedley Byrne v Heller

2013 was the 50th anniversary of the House of Lords' landmark decision in <i>Hedley Byrne v Heller</i>. This international collection of essays brings together leading experts from five of...

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Fire & Smoke: Government, Lawsuits, and the Rule of Law

The state of Mississippi's lawsuit against tobacco companies in 1994 was quickly emulated by more than a dozen other states and then the federal government. Not to be outdone, more than a dozen cities...

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Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial

<I>Is the United States tort system in crisis?</I> CBS television's 60 Minutes has said the tort system metes out "jackpot justice," and Newsweek has called America a "Lawsuit Hell." Other...

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Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law: Cases and Materials

This is the seventh edition of the classic casebook on Tort. Taking a broadly contextual approach the book addresses all the main topics in tort law, is up-to-date, doctrinally sound, stimulating and...

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Divergences in Private Law

This book is a study of doctrinal and methodological divergence in the common law of obligations. It explores particular departures from the common law mainstream and the causes and effects of those...

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Evidential Uncertainty in Causation in Negligence,

This book undertakes an analysis of academic and judicial responses to the problem of evidential uncertainty in causation in negligence. It seeks to bring clarity to what has become a notoriously...

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Tort Law

Tort Law: A Modern Perspective is an advanced yet accessible introduction to tort law for lawyers, law students, and others. Reflecting the way tort law is taught today, it explains the cases and legal...

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A Theory of Tort Liability

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights. Inspired by the account of private law contained in...

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Damages and Compensation Culture: Comparative Perspectives

The focus of the essays in this book is on the relationship between compensation culture, social values and tort damages for personal injuries. A central concern of the public and political perception...

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Tort Law and Human Rights

This completely revised and expanded second edition has chapters on Public Authority Liability, Privacy and Autonomy Rights, Land Torts and Death.

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Defaming the Dead

<B>Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected</B><p>This is a delightfully deceptive works that...

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Rediscovering the Law of Negligence

Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence.

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