Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law of Torts in Europe 6 Volume Set: The Development of Liability between Neighbours: Volume 4 - Hardcover

9780521767668: Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law of Torts in Europe 6 Volume Set: The Development of Liability between Neighbours: Volume 4

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ISBN 10: 0521767660 ISBN 13: 9780521767668

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Cases arising from disputes between neighbours (what English law would describe in terms of the law of nuisance) fall towards the edge of the law of tort, on its boundary with the law of property. They therefore provide a good example of how the categorisation of a case can affect the liability rule: tort law is typically concerned with fault, property law with strict liability. The aim of this book is to examine the importance of these category shifts, as well as the extent to which statutory interventions, planning control and the like have had an impact on the analysis of tortuous liability.

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About the Author

James Gordley holds the W. R. Irby Chair in Law at Tulane University Law School. He was previously Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of California, Berkeley, a fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Florence, an associate with the Boston firm of Foley Hoag & Eliot, and an Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow at Harvard.

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