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Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law
By
Simon Deakin, Angus Johnston, Basil Markesinis
Description
* The academic
perspectives combined with a highly readable style encourages
reflection and analysis, aiding students to develop these
increasingly important cutting-edge skills
* Unlike many
other textbooks, contains a chapter on defences and remedies,
broadening the students\\\' knowledge and giving them a more rounded
understanding of the law of torts
New to this edition
* Chapters
have not just been updated but extensively re-written to incorporate
new material and new ideas
* Key recent
developments, including the growing impact of the Human Rights Act,
are given clear coverage
* The material
has been broken down into a greater number of smaller chapters to
allow teachers and students to focus on those subjects they wish to
study
* Judicial
views, while given due deference, are often reviewed critically in
order to make readers think and reflect more about the state of the
law
Markesinis and
Deakin\\\'s Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and
well-established textbook, reaching its sixth edition in the space of
twenty years. It provides a general overview of the law and full
discussion of the academic debates on all major topics, highlighting
the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial
policy as well as the new European influences emanating from
Luxembourg and Strasbourg. In addition, the authors provide a variety
of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its
likely development, always placing the subject in its socio-economic
context thus giving students a deeper and richer understanding of
tort law.
Written by leading
authorities on tort law, this detailed book offers teachers a wide
range of topics to cover while offering students a text which is both
descriptive and reflective of this branch of law. A bibliography and
rich footnotes provide interested readers with further references.
Readership:
Suitable for students as well as academics and practitioners of tort
law.
Contents
I Setting the scene
1. Introduction
II The tort of negligence
2. Establishing
liability in principle
3. Other elements
of liability
4. An American
perspective on negligence
III Special forms of negligence
5. Liability of
occupiers and builders
6. Breach of
statutory duty
7. Liability of
statutory bodies
IV Interference with the person
8. Intentional
interference
9. Malicious
prosecution
V Land and chattels and intentional
interference with economic interests
10. Interference
with chattels
11. Land
12. Lesser
interferences with land nuisance
13. Deceit
14. The economic
torts
VI Stricter forms of liability
15. The rule of
Rylands v Fletcher
16. Liability for
animals
17. Employer\\\'s
liability
18. Vicarious
liability
19. Product
liability
VII Protection of human dignity (in
private law)
20. Defamation and
injurious falsehood
21. Privacy
22. Defamation and
privacy: the American perspective
VIII: Defences and remedies
23. Defences
24. Damages
25. Other remedies
and multiple liabilities
Index
Authors, editors, and contributors
Simon Deakin,
FBA,, Professor of Law and a Fellow of Peterhouse, University of
Cambridge,
Angus Johnston,
Tutor and Director of Studies in Law, Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and
University Lecturer in Law, Universitu of Cambridge, and
Sir Basil
Markesinis QC, FBA,, Corresponding Fellow of the French Academy;
Jamail Regents Chair of Law, University of Texas
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