Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Translations
List of abbreviations
PART A Introduction
Chapter 1 Tort law in the 21st century – the purpose of this book
Chapter 2 A case-oriented and multilateral approach to the teaching, studying, and learning of comparative law: the approach used in this book
Chapter 3 Is it legitimate and beneficial for judges to compare?
Chapter 4 The Principles of European Tort Law – a brief introduction and analysis
PART B Case studies
Chapter 5 Conditions and limits of extra-contractual liability – cable cases
Chapter 6 Fault-based liability and the required standard of care: the case of damage caused by minors
Chapter 7 Fault-based liability in action: challenges of establishing fault (and alternative regimes) – the example of sports accidents
Chapter 8 Liability without fault – a ruptured water main: casum sentit dominus?
Chapter 9 Most common cases: traffic accidents
Chapter 10 Liability in cases of uncertain causation – "all or nothing" or partial compensation in relation to the probability of causation?
Chapter 11 Damage suffered by secondary victims: the case of psychiatric injury, "nervous shock", or "post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" following the loss or severe injury of a loved one
Chapter 12 Damage suffered by secondary victims: damages for pure emotional harm following the loss or severe injury of a loved one
Chapter 13 Liability for others – the case of liability of parents for damage caused by their children
Chapter 14 Pure economic loss: the case of liability for wrongful information and advice
Chapter 15 Protection of privacy and the purposes of tort law
Chapter 16 Damage to public goods: the case of damage to the environment, pure ecological damage in particular
Chapter 17 Comparative tort litigation – an introduction, with a focus on the costs of lawsuits
Chapter 18 Cross-border torts: coordinating legal diversity through Private International Law – an introduction
Chapter 19 Epilogue: tort law in context – and potential alternatives to tort liability
Table of codal and statutory provisions
Index