The Development and Making of Legal Doctrine: Volume 6 - Softcover

Jansen, Nils

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107475791 ISBN 13: 9781107475793

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This detailed description and comparative analysis of the development of tort law in Europe over the last 150 years is based on national reports that are structured by a basic questionnaire. The national reports are complemented with a comparative analysis of the parallel, though often diverging, developments in the different legal systems. It can clearly be seen that different groups in the legal systems, such as judges and scholars, often had diverging views on tort law that were translated into more specific doctrinal and evaluative statements. Accompanied by a general expansion of liability due to changing perceptions of the risks of accidents, the former Roman law of delict and the medieval law of torts have been transformed into modern rules of extra-contractual liability that are deeply entrenched into the social security and insurance systems.

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About the Author

Professor Nils Jansen currently serves on the Law Faculty of the University of Münster, Germany. He holds the Chair for Roman Law, Legal History, German and European Private Law, and is a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity. Since April 2005, Professor Jansen has been consulting the Chinese Government with regard to a codification of tort law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107475791
• ISBN 13: 9781107475793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254