Comparative Tort Law

Edited by Mauro Bussani, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Trieste, Italy and Adjunct Professor, University of Macau, S.A.R. of the P.R. of China and Anthony J. Sebok, Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, US and Distinguished Research Professor, College of Law, Swansea University, UK

‘Many readers could benefit from consulting this book as an introductory text, or having it on-hand as a ready reference guide on comparative tort law concepts. This book will be a useful primer for a variety of readers, including practitioners who are looking for an introduction to comparative tort law and researchers who are interested in thinking about tort law’s philosophical and global concepts.’

• Contents:Preface to the Second Edition ix1 Introduction to comparative tort law: global perspectives 1Mauro Bussani and Anthony J. SebokPART I THE OVERALL SETTINGS2 The many cultures of tort liability 9Mauro Bussani and Marta Infantino3 Tort law and conflict of laws 35Symeon C. Symeonides4 Compensation at the intersection of tort law and international human rights law 63Giovanna Gilleri5 Tort and crime 84Matthew Dyson6 Liability rules: an economic taxonomy 112Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Francesco Parisi7 Tort law and insurance 133Ina Ebert8 Alternative compensation schemes from a comparative perspective 140Daniel JutrasPART II GENERAL ISSUES9 The architecture of the common and civil law of torts: an historical survey 160James Gordley10 The bounds between negligence and strict liability 186Franz Werro and Erdem Büyüksagis11 Professional liability 214Ewoud Hondius12 Product liability 236Mathias Reimann13 Causation theories and causation rules 264Marta Infantino14 A comparative-law sketch of pure economic loss 284Vernon Valentine Palmer15 Tort damages for non-economic losses: personal injury 305Stephen D. Sugarman16 Tort damages for non-economic losses: methodological approaches forcomparative analysis served by new technologies 336Denise Amram and Giovanni ComandéPART III BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS17 Basics of Russian tort law 355Alexander Yagelnitskiy18 Tort law in Japan 373Emi Matsumoto19 Chinese tort law: tradition, transplants and some difficulties 397Hao Jiang20 Tort law in India 427Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj, Ujal Kumar Mookherjee and Aman Deep Borthakur21 The customary law of tort in sub-Saharan Africa 443Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja22 Islamic tort law 469Abdul Basir bin Mohamad23 Tort law in Hispanic America 517Marco de Morpurgo and Daniel Peñailillo Arévalo24 Tort law in Brazil 539Umberto Celli JrIndex