This book provides a comprehensive theory of the rights upon which tort law is based and the liability that flows from violating those rights. It considers the laws of Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States.
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Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world?Tort, Custom, and Karmaexamines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected or…
This book challenges a contemporary consensus on the titanic figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes is one of the founders of twentieth-century tort law, but David Rosenberg takes sharp issue with the current portrayal of Holmes as a legal formalist who opposed the notion of st…
A complete guide to equity and trusts in a single volume, with clear author introductions and analyses of the law while the extracts from cases and materials promote the development of essential case reading skills and allow for detailed appreciation of the practical workings of…
Phantom risk: scientific inference and the law
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Birth defects; Cancer and pollution; Asbestos hazards; Polychlorinated biphenyls health effects; Trichloroethylene toxicolgy and epidemiology; Dioxin; Nuclear fallout; Chemical pollutants, etc.
"Many of the defining features of the modern law of tort can be traced to the first half of the twentieth century, but, until now, developments in that period have never received a dedicated historical examination. This book examines both common law and statutory innovations, pa…
Street on torts
by Murphy, John, Goudkamp, James, Street, H., (Harry), Witting, Christian
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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. It sets out a new and theoretically stimulating analysis of the law of tort, in which the subject is …
