Law of torts, damages and compensation

Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.

Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law.

Novelist Raymond Chandler once said, "e;The Law isn't justice.

Worker Injury Third Party Cases: Recognizing and Proving Liability is a practical resource that helps lawyers and others identify viable third party theories of liability in worker injury cases.

Though mental harm can be profoundly disabling, the law imposes strict limits on who can recover damages for it.

Punitive damages are private law's most controversial remedy.

An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.

Now in hardback, this comprehensive work covers the legal and regulatory environment in which claims concerning sales of and advice on financial products for individuals and businesses are brought and defended.

The European Tort Law Yearbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in tort law in Europe.

This book examines the regulatory framework for untested and unapproved uses (off-label uses) of medicines in the EU, UK, and USA.

Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law.

This book examines the challenges of the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia.

Essential Tort Law for SQE1 explains the key principles of tort law in a clear, easy-to-follow style.

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law.

Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices is the first comprehensive account of the scope, foundations, and structure of remedial law in common law jurisdictions.

in recent years, there has been a growing interest in the legal aspects of mass torts in Europe.

The only comprehensive tort law book featuring real-life federal cases for the practicing pharmacistAs tort law and tort liability cases, both civil and administrative, continue to increase in the pharmacy practice, now more than ever, it is imperative for students and practitioners to understand the civil liability a pharmacist may face.

The widespread understanding of auction structure considers auction as consisting of three contracts: contract between the seller and the auctioneer, contract between the auctioneer and the buyer and the sale contract between the seller and the buyer.

This book modernizes the traditional tort law textbook by combining in-depth analysis of policy with detailed discussion of legal doctrine.

This book proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct and reverse the course of the past and catalyze the stalled efforts of the present.

In Global Perspectives on Income Taxation Law, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Nicola Sartori, and Omri Marian cover basic, corporate and international tax law from a comparative perspective.

This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gaps caused by AI systems vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for interconnected AI systems (crowds).

Professional misconduct within the academic community is highly publicised.

Torts and other Wrongs is a collection of eleven of the author's essays on the theory of the law of torts and its place in the law more generally.

What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car?

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Within the broad framework of the common law of tort,the torts of nuisance and the rule in Rylands v.

The language of duress and necessity is found in crime, tort and contract.

Written to be accessible to all readers with a basic knowledge of tort law, this book adopts an approach which is both easily comprehended, yet also innovative and illuminating.

First English-language comparative volume to study where, how and why tort and crime interact.

What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car?

2013 was the 50th anniversary of the House of Lords' landmark decision in Hedley Byrne v Heller.

The second edition of this groundbreaking book looks at the key debates and issues in media law, a fast-developing area of scholarship that raises many high-profile and controversial questions.

Explore the key aspects of business law through accessible, engaging real-life cas Law for Business Students, 12th edition, by Adams, Caplan and Lockwood provides you with contemporary and comprehensive coverage of the fundamental legal principles relating to the business environment.

This ground-breaking book takes a fresh look at potential non-litigation solutions to providing personal injury compensation.

This 2003 study uses a fact-based comparative method and in-depth research into the laws of thirteen European countries.

This book of essays champions tort scholarship that puts judges at centre stage: what they do, how they understand their role, the heterogeneous reasons they give for their decisions, and their constitutional responsibility to identify and articulate the 'living' and 'evolving' common law.

This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights.

This book provides comprehensive guidance for the implementation of the legal requirements of FIDIC contracts with a detailed application of modern project management principles.

Laws are imposed on facts.

Develops a theory of tort law integrating deontic and consequential approaches by applying justificational analysis to identify its factors, circumstances, and values.

This textbook covers the Tort Law option of the A-level law syllabus, and provides at the same time an ideal introduction for anybody coming to the subject for the first time.

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on common law and civil law countries.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law.