Private Law Theory

A Review of BASIC QUESTIONS OF TORT LAW FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Helmut Koziol ed, Sramek 2015). This book is the second of two volumes on ‘Basic Questions of Tort Law’. In the first volume, Professor Helmut Koziol examined German, Austrian, and Swiss tort law. In this volume, Professor Koziol has assembled essays by distinguished scholars from several European legal systems as well as the United States and Japan, each of whom follows the structure of Koziol’s earlier book and explains how those basic questions are handled in their own systems. Throughout both volumes, Professor Koziol and his collaborators take a broad view of the topic under discussion, addressing not only the private law Americans call ‘tort’ but also the role of insurance schemes in compensating injured persons …

Michael L Wells, Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective, 9 Journal of Civil Law Studies (2017).

First posted 2017-04-01 11:00:49