Private Law Theory

“Regulating Risk Through Private Law, edited by Matthew Dyson, is now available from Intersentia. The blurb provides: ‘Regulating Risk Through Private Law sets out, for nine significant legal systems, an overarching conception of risk in legal theory, particularly of the linked role of risk-taking in generating liability and in liability regulating risk. It examines and explains what risk-based reasoning adds to private law. Taking tort law as the core case study, the book analyses national variation in risk understanding, liability, culture and regulation and from that, develops a legal framework for understanding and responding to risk. Then, looking beyond tort, the volume examines the contextual and cultural setting of different risks and how different legal systems seek to regulate them …’” (more)

[TortsProf Blog, 23 January]

First posted 2018-01-23 14:31:44