Tort / Personal Injury

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law 6th Edition

Edited by Simon Deakin · Angus Johnston · Basil Markesinis
Oxford University Press September 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780199286577
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
September 2007
Format
Hardback , 1156 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • The academic perspectives combined with a highly readable style encourages reflection and analysis, aiding students to develop these increasingly important cutting-edge skills
  • Unlike many other textbooks, contains a chapter on defences and remedies, broadening the students' knowledge and giving them a more rounded understanding of the law of torts

New to this edition

  • Chapters have not just been updated but extensively re-written to incorporate new material and new ideas
  • Key recent developments, including the growing impact of the Human Rights Act, are given clear coverage
  • The material has been broken down into a greater number of smaller chapters to allow teachers and students to focus on those subjects they wish to study
  • Judicial views, while given due deference, are often reviewed critically in order to make readers think and reflect more about the state of the law

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook, reaching its sixth edition in the space of twenty years. It provides a general overview of the law and full discussion of the academic debates on all major topics, highlighting the relationship between the common law, legislation, and judicial policy as well as the new European influences emanating from Luxembourg and Strasbourg. In addition, the authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its likely development, always placing the subject in its socio-economic context thus giving students a deeper and richer understanding of tort law.
Written by leading authorities on tort law, this detailed book offers teachers a wide range of topics to cover in their teaching while offering students a text which is both descriptive and reflective of this branch of law. A bibliography and rich footnotes provide interested readers with further references.

Readership: Suitable for students as well as academics and practitioners of tort law.

Table of Contents

I Setting the scene
1: Introduction
II The tort of negligence
2: Establishing liability in principle
3: Other elements of liability
4: An American perspective on negligence
III Special forms of negligence
5: Liability of occupiers and builders
6: Breach of statutory duty
7: Liability of statutory bodies
IV Interference with the person
8: Intentional interference
9: Malicious prosecution
V Land and chattels and intentional interference with economic interests
10: Interference with chattels
11: Land
12: Lesser interferences with land nuisance
13: Deceit
14: The economic torts
VI Stricter forms of liability
15: The rule of Rylands v Fletcher
16: Liability for animals
17: Employer's liability
18: Vicarious liability
19: Product liability
VII Protection of human dignity (in private law)
20: Defamation and injurious falsehood
21: Privacy
22: Defamation and privacy: the American perspective
VIII: Defences and remedies
23: Defences
24: Damages
25: Other remedies and multiple liabilities
Index

About the Author

Simon Deakin, FBA,, Professor of Law and Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Angus Johnston, Tutor and Director of Studies in Law, Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and University Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge, and Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA,, Corresponding Fellow of the French Academy; Jamail Regents Chair of Law, University of Texas

Reviews

"Review from previous edition ...one of the best textbooks available to students. The text is highly readable and explains all of the relevant areas in great detail. A definite recommendation for any tort law student." - Student Law Journal

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