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"Contents" [2015] ELECD 895; in Bussani, Mauro; Sebok, J. Anthony (eds), "Comparative Tort Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) v

Book Title: Comparative Tort Law

Editor(s): Bussani, Mauro; Sebok, J. Anthony

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849801416

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors vii

1 Introduction to comparative tort law: Global perspectives 1
Mauro Bussani and Anthony J. Sebok

PART I GENERAL ISSUES

2 The many cultures of tort liability 11
Mauro Bussani and Marta Infantino
3 Tort law and conflict of laws 39
Symeon C. Symeonides
4 Tort law and human rights 70
Eric A. Engle
5 Tort and crime 93
Matthew Dyson
6 Liability rules: An economic taxonomy 122
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Francesco Parisi
7 Tort law and insurance 144
Ina Ebert
8 Alternative compensation schemes from a comparative perspective 151
Daniel Jutras

PART II THE WESTERN LAW OF TORTS

9 The architecture of the common and civil law of torts: An historical survey 173
James Gordley
10 The bounds between negligence and strict liability 201
Franz Werro and Erdem Büyüksagis
11 Professional liability 226
Ewoud Hondius
12 Product liability 250
Mathias Reimann
13 Causation theories and causation rules 279
Marta Infantino
14 A comparative law sketch of pure economic loss 300
Vernon Valentine Palmer
15 Tort damages for non-economic losses: Personal injury 323
Stephen D. Sugarman




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PART III NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVES

16. Tort law in Japan 359
Emi Matsumoto
17 Chinese tort law: Between tradition and transplants 385
Hao Jiang
18 Customary tort law in Sub-Saharan Africa 412
Dominic N. Dagbanja
19 Islamic tort law 441
Abdul Basir bin Mohamad
20 Tort law in Latin America 474
Marco de Morpurgo

Index 493