Key Ideas in Tort Law: 2 (Key Ideas in Law) - Softcover

Peter Cane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509909427 ISBN 13: 9781509909421

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in particular, on how tort law can guide people’s behaviour, and the political and social environments within which it operates. It also provides the reader with a wealth of detail about the ideas and values that underlie tort ‘doctrine’―tort law’s rules and principles, and the way those rules and principles operate in practice. The book is an accessible introduction to tort law that will provide students, scholars and practitioners alike with a fresh and engaging view of the subject.


‘In this masterful and engaging survey, Peter Cane provides an array of illuminating perspectives on the law of torts, laying bare its nature, structure and functions, as well as its legal, social and political context.’

Andrew Robertson, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School

About this title

About the Author

Peter Cane is a Senior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law, and before that a Professor of Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on law, including Atiyah’s Accidents, Compensation and the Law (8th ed, 2013), Responsibility in Law and Morality (2003), The Anatomy of Tort Law (1997), Tort Law and Economic Interests (2nd ed, 1996), and Administrative Law (5th ed, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509909427
• ISBN 13: 9781509909421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144