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Causation in European Tort Law

Part of The Common Core of European Private Law

Editors:
Marta Infantino, Università degli Studi di Trieste
Eleni Zervogianni, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki

Ewa Bagińska, Nadia Coggiola, Ursula Connolly, Eugenia Dacoronia, David Elischer, Sandra Friberg, Ivo Giesen, Lone Hansen, Marta Infantino, Nils Jansen, David Kästle-Lamparter, Katarzyna Krupa-Lipińska, Ken Oliphant, Christophe Quézel-Ambrunaz, Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira, Ingeborg Puppe, Lukas Rademacher, Eleonora Rajneri, Rianka Rijnhout, Loreta Šaltinytė, Anthony J. Sebok, Kristina Siig, Barbara C. Steininger, Silvia Tsoneva, Elena Vicente Domingo, Richard W. Wright, Eleni Zervogianni

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Date Published: February 2018
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isbn: 9781108418362

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Through a comprehensive analysis of sixteen European legal systems, based on an assessment of national answers to a factual questionnaire, Causation in European Tort Law sheds light on the operative rules applied in each jurisdiction to factual and legal causation problems. It highlights how legal systems' features impact on the practical role that causation is called upon to play, as well as the arguments of professional lawyers. Issues covered include the conditions under which a causal link can be established, rules on contribution and apportionment, the treatment of supervening, alternative and uncertain causes, the understanding of loss-of-a-chance cases, and the standard and the burden of proving causation. This is a book for scholars, students and legal professionals alike.
- Examines many causation problems through the use of factual questionnaires, engaging those with a practical interest in the subject
- Covers sixteen different European jurisdictions, offering a coordinated analysis of each
- Improves the awareness of all factors affecting the application of causation rules in European jurisdictions
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'The disarming yet deceptively complex topic of causation in tort law has long fascinated scholars in North America. It also provides a formidable challenge that the 'Common Core of European Private Law' publishing project has now confronted as part of its ambitious endeavour to identify and analyze the commonalities and divergences that characterize European private law. With a pair of promising young scholars (Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni) at the helm, Causation in European Tort Law applies a unique analytical approach to comparative law that has become the trademark of the Common Core enterprise, and that seeks to provide what it claims are indispensable 'roadmaps' for ongoing efforts by academics to harmonize European law.' Joseph A. Page, The American Journal of Comparative Law

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- Date Published: February 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108418362
- length: 780 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 40 mm
- weight: 1.19kg
- contains: 2 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Causation in Context:
1. The place and space of causation Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni
2. Causation in the law: philosophy, doctrine and practice Ingeborg Puppe and Richard W. Wright
3. Actual causation in the Second and Third Restatements: or, the expulsion of the substantial factor test Anthony J. Sebok
4. The European ways to causation Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni
Part II. The Comparative Evidence. Case Responses and Editors' Comparative Comments:
5. Preliminary remarks on methodology Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni
6. The case studies
Part III. The Comparative Assessment:
7. Summary and survey of the results Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni.
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Editors
Marta Infantino, Università degli Studi di Trieste
Marta Infantino is Assistant Professor in the Legal Department at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. She has published extensively in Italian, English and French on comparative contract law, comparative tort law, human rights and global legal indicators. Some of her works have been translated into Chinese and Spanish. Her monograph on causation was awarded the Italian Lynx Academy's prize for emerging authors in 2013.
Eleni Zervogianni, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Eleni Zervogianni is Assistant Professor of Civil Law in the Law Faculty at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research focuses mainly on the law of obligations as well as family and succession law, both from a national and comparative law perspective. She is the author of two monographs and more than fifty articles and contributions to collective works in Greek, English and German.
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Ewa Bagińska, Nadia Coggiola, Ursula Connolly, Eugenia Dacoronia, David Elischer, Sandra Friberg, Ivo Giesen, Lone Hansen, Marta Infantino, Nils Jansen, David Kästle-Lamparter, Katarzyna Krupa-Lipińska, Ken Oliphant, Christophe Quézel-Ambrunaz, Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira, Ingeborg Puppe, Lukas Rademacher, Eleonora Rajneri, Rianka Rijnhout, Loreta Šaltinytė, Anthony J. Sebok, Kristina Siig, Barbara C. Steininger, Silvia Tsoneva, Elena Vicente Domingo, Richard W. Wright, Eleni Zervogianni