Tort Law: Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe [Paperback]

This is the complete version of the Casebook on Tort Law,part of which was already published in 1998 under the title Tort Law: Scope of Protection. Additional subjects covered in this book include the tort/contract divide, causation, remedies, fault and unlawfulness, liability for others, liability not based on fault as well as defences. It is part of the Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe' series, developed for use throughout Europe and aimed at those who teach, learn or practice law with a comparative or European perspective. Readers will find therein leading cases, legislation and other materials from the legal traditions within Europe, with focus on English, French and German law as the main representatives of those traditions. Materials are chosen and ordered so as to foster comparative study, and complemented with annotations and comparative overviews prepared by a multinational team. The whole Casebook is in English.


See the detailed webpage for this book:
http://www.casebooks.eu/tort/.

Walter van Gerven was formerly an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and has held chairs in law at the Universities of Louvain/Leuven and Maastricht.
Jeremy Lever is the Senior Dean of All Souls College Oxford and a Bencher of Gray's Inn.
Pierre Larouche is a Professor of Law at Tilburg University.

The authors do express the hope that the book will be used as teaching material in universities in order to familiarize future generations of lawyers with each others' legal systems and the inpact of European and international law. In my view, the book fully meets the objectives chosen by the authors.
However, the use of this book should not be confined to the law school class rooms. It should find its way to present day legal practice as well, since the lS