European Legal Development: The Case Of Tort - Softcover

Bell, John

 
9781107475625: European Legal Development: The Case Of Tort
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107475627 ISBN 13: 9781107475625
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

What shapes the development of a legal system? The economy? Legal ideas? Social and political movements? Drawing on the other eight volumes in the series, European Legal Development: The Case of Tort aims to challenge conventional comparative law explanations of the factors that shape the law. It goes further into ideas that law could be conceived as either driven by external factors or is primarily the product of deliberations among lawyers. Choosing the examples of product and medical liabilities, the book considers the convergence of developments across legal systems. By contrast, examining road accidents and relations between neighbours, it notes areas in which the development of tort law has diverged. Tort law emerges as only part of the legal response and its place depends on the activity of the legislator, as much as on judicial and scholarly ideas about the place of fault liability within the schemes of compensation.

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About the Authors

John Bell is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge.

David Ibbetson is Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107475627
ISBN 13 
9781107475625
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
226