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Assorted References
- application to privacy rights
- warranties
definition in
- common law
- Napoleonic Code
- Talmud
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- agency
- bankruptcy law
- carriage of goods law
- damages
- In damages
- human rights
- marriage and family law
Additional Reading
American law
A one-volume treatise on American law is Dan B. Dobbs, The Law of Torts (2000). A multivolume account can be found in Fowler V. Harper, Fleming James, Jr., and Oscar S. Gray, Harper, James, and Gray on Torts, 3rd ed. (2006– ). The most stimulating book about American tort law in its wider context is John G. Fleming, The American Tort Process (1988), which, inter alia, explains why tort law in the United States has come to differ so significantly from its English progenitor.
English law
The standard authority on English law is Margaret R. Brazier (ed.), Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, 17th ed. (1995). John G. Fleming, The Law of Torts, 9th ed. (1998), published posthumously, arguably offers the most stimulating treatment. Simon Deakin, Angus Johnston, and B.S. Markesinis, Markesinis and Deakin’s Tort Law, 6th ed. (2007), adopts a policy-oriented presentation of the law. Peter Cane, Atiyah’s Accidents, Compensation, and the Law, 7th ed. (2006), provides a thought-provoking account of the workings of various systems of compensation.
French law
Henry Mazeaud et al., Traité théorique et pratique de la responsabilité civile délictuelle et contractuelle, 6th ed., 3 vol. in 4 (1965–83), is the classic exposition of French law. An excellent, more modern presentation can be found in Jacques Ghestin (ed.), Traité de droit civil, vol. 4 and 5, Les Obligations: la responsabilité: conditions (1982), and Introduction à la responsabilité, 2nd ed. (1995), both by Geneviève Viney.
German law
Karl Larenz and Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, Lehrbuch des Schuldrechts, vol. 2, Besonderer Teil, 13th ed., 2 vol. (1994), is a classic text; Hein Kötz and Gerhard Wagner, Deliktsrecht, 10th rev. ed. (2006), is a smaller but highly respected treatise on German law.
Comparative law
H.L.A. Hart and Tony Honoré, Causation in the Law, 2nd ed. (1985), is the classic monograph on causation. Other comparative discussions include André Tunc, La Responsabilité civile (1981); Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kötz, Einfürung in die Rechtsvergleichung auf dem Gebiete des Privatrechts, 3rd rev. ed., 2 vol. (1997), the first edition of which is also available in English as An Introduction to Comparative Law (1998); and F.H. Lawson and B.S. Markesinis, Tortious Liability for Unintentional Harm in the Common Law and the Civil Law, 2 vol. (1982). B.S. Markesinis, The German Law of Obligations, vol. 2, The Law of Torts, 3rd ed. (1997), offers a detailed examination of German, English, and American tort law through a detailed commentary and translated decisions. Christian von Bar, Gemein europäisches Delikts recht, 2 vol. (1996–99), gives a briefer but more wide-ranging account of western European tort law, along with copious bibliographical references. Walter van Gerven, Jeremy Lever, and Pierre Larouche, Common Law of Europe Casebooks: Tort Law (2001), is part of a series concerning the common law of Europe.
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Article History
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Add new Web site: Federation of American Scientists - Introduction to Tort Law. | Jul 20, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Academia - Notes: Law of Torts. | Jun 07, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Boise State Pressbooks - Business Law: A Risk Management Approach - Introduction to Tort Law. | Dec 15, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Congressional Research Service - Introduction to Tort Law. | Oct 31, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: University of Sunderland - What is tort law? | Aug 22, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Business LibreTexts - Tort Law. | Dec 05, 2022 | ||
Add new Web site: National Center of Biotechnology Information - Tort. | Sep 26, 2022 | ||
Corrected display issue. | Mar 02, 2021 | ||
Corrected display issue. | Aug 15, 2019 | ||
Add new Web site: The Lectric Law Library - Torts & Tort Law. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
Added image of Oprah Winfrey after her victory in a lawsuit alleging that she had libeled beef. | Mar 22, 2011 | ||
Added Latin derivation. | May 22, 2009 | ||
Added new Web site: Cornell Law School - Legal Information Institute - Tort Law. | Apr 07, 2009 | ||
Added new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Torts. | Apr 07, 2009 | ||
Bibliography revised and updated. | Jun 04, 2008 | ||
Article revised and updated. | Jun 04, 2008 | ||
Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Theories of the Common Law of Torts. | Jan 25, 2008 | ||
Article revised. | Jun 29, 2000 | ||
Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |