Pure Economic Loss

New Horizons in Comparative Law

Vernon Valentine Palmer, Mauro Bussani (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2008
Routledge Cavendish (Verlag)
978-0-415-77564-9 (ISBN)

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Pure economic loss is one of the most-discussed problems in the fields of tort and contract. This book takes a comparative approach to the subject, exploring the principles, policies and rules governing tortious liability for pure economic loss in a number of countries across the world including the USA, Canada, Japan, South Africa and Denmark.

Pure economic loss is one of the most-discussed problems in the fields of tort and contract. How do we understand the various differences and similarities between these systems and what is the extent to which there is a common-core of agreement on this question?

This book takes a comparative approach to the subject, exploring the principles, policies and rules governing tortious liability for pure economic loss in a number of countries and legal systems across the world. The countries covered are USA, Canada, Japan, Israel, South Africa, Japan, Romania, Croatia, Denmark and Poland, with the contributors taking a comparative fact-based approach through the use of hypothetical problems to analyze and then summarize the individual country’s tort approach. Using a fact-based questionnaire, a tested taxonomy, and a sophisticated comparative law methodology, the authors convincingly demonstrate that there are liberal, pragmatic and conservative regimes throughout the world. The recoverability of pure economic loss poses a generic question for these legal systems - it is not just a civil law versus common law issue. It will be of interest to students and academics studying tort law and comparative law in the different countries covered.

Vernon Valentine Palmer is the Thomas Pickles Professor of Law and the Director of the Eason-Weinmann Center of Comparative Law at Tulane University, USA. Mauro Bussani is Full Professor of Private and Comparative Law at the University of Trieste, Italy, and Regular Visiting Professor at the University of Macau Law School, S.A.R. of the People’s Republic of China.

Preface Part 1 1. Introduction 2. The Liability Systems - A functional Ordering Part 2: The National Contributions 1. Japan 2. Croatia 3. Quebec 4. United States 5. Canada 6. Israel 7. South Africa 8. Poland 9. Denmark Part 3 1. Surveying the Results 2. General Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.9.2008
Reihe/Serie	UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Besonderes Schuldrecht
ISBN-10	0-415-77564-7 / 0415775647
ISBN-13	978-0-415-77564-9 / 9780415775649
Zustand	Neuware