tailieunhanh - Compensation for Personal Injury in English, German and Italian Law

Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore, European nationals increasingly join class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about the law of damages in Europe and America. Despite the growing importance of this subject, there is a dearth of material available to practitioners to assist them in advising their clients as to the heads of damage recoverable in other countries. This book aims to fill that gap by looking at the law in England, Germany and Italy. It sets out the raw data in the wider context of tort law, then provides a closer synthesis, largely concerned with methodological issues,. | CSICL CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW Compensation for Personal Injury in English German and Italian Law A Comparative Outline BASIL MARKESINIS MICHAEL COESTER GUIDO ALPA AND AUGUSTUS ULLSTEIN Cambridge more information - 9780521846134 This page intentionally left blank Compensation for Personal Injury in English German and Italian Law Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore European nationals increasinglyjoin class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about the law of damages in Europe and America. Despite the growing importance of this subject there is a dearth of material available to practitioners to assist them in advising their clients as to the heads of damage recoverable in other countries. This book aims to fill that gap by looking at the law in England Germany and Italy. It sets out the raw data in the wider context of tort law then provides a closer synthesis largely concerned with methodological issues and draws some comparative conclusions. basil markesinis qc fba is Professor of Common and Civil Law at University College London and Jamail Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or co-author of twenty-five books and over a hundred articles published in major European and US legal journals. He has received high decorations from the Presidents of France Germany Greece and Italy for his work on European law and European integration and is Corresponding Member of the Academies of Athens Belgium France and the Netherlands. MICHAEL coester has been an Ordinarius Professor of Law at the University of Gottingen 1983-1994 and Munich since 1994. He was Dean of the faculty in Gottingen and has served on the Senate of the University of Munich. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan University College London and University of Nanjing. He has authored four books and over 130 articles published in