Emerging Issues in tort law

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chamberlain, Erika (Author), Neyers, Jason W. (Author), Pitel, Stephen G. A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, [England] Portland, Or. : Hart Pub. , c2007
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245 0 0 |a Emerging Issues in tort law   |c edited by Jason W. Neyers, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen G. A. Pitel 
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300 |a xvi, 593 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. General and special tort law: uses (and abuses) of theory -- 2. Breach of statute and tort law -- 3. "Sois sage": responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs -- 4. Claims of involuntary parenthood: why the resistance? -- 5. Liability for psychiatric damage: searching for a path between pragmatism and principle -- 6. Should White v Jones represent Canadian law: a return to first principles -- 7. Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties -- 8. Policy issues in defective property cases -- 9. Defective structures and economic loss in the United States: law and policy -- 10. Harm screening under negligence law -- 11. Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes -- 12. Decision causation: Pandora's tool-box -- 13. Non- delegable duties and vicarious liability -- 14. Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties -- 15. Perish vicarious liability? -- 16. Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability: defining the scope of employment -- 17. What is a loss? -- 18. The changing face of the gist of negligence -- 19. Tort law in practice: appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages -- 20. The structure of the intentional torts -- 21. The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton -- 22. Where principle meets pragmatism: tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong 
650 0 |a Torts   |z United States 
700 1 |a Chamberlain, Erika ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Neyers, Jason W. ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Pitel, Stephen G. A. ,   |e author 
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