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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTort 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTort 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.
View ArticleCausation 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...
View ArticleDefences 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.
View ArticleTort 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...
View ArticleLaw 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...
View ArticleFire & 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...
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleHepple 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...
View ArticleDivergences 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...
View ArticleEvidential 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...
View ArticleTort 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleDamages 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...
View ArticleTort 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.
View ArticleDefaming 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...
View ArticleRediscovering the Law of Negligence
Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence.
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