Emerging Issues in Tort Law.

Prelims -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 General and Special Tort Law: Uses (and Abuses) of Theory -- 2 Breach of Statute and Tort Law -- 3 'Sois Sage'- Responsibility for Childishness in the Law of Civil Wrongs -- 4 Claims of Involuntary Parenthood: Why the Resistance? -- 5 Liability for Psychiatric Damage: Searching for a Path between Pragmatism and Principle -- 6 Should White v Jones Represent Canadian Law: A Return to First Principles -- 7 Breaches of Contracts and Claims by Third Parties -- 8 Policy Issues in Defective Property Cases -- 9 Defective Structures and Economic Loss in the United States: Law and Policy -- 10 Harm Screening Under Negligence Law -- 11 Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes -- 12 Decision Causation: Pandora's Tool-Box -- 13 Non-Delegable Duties and Vicarious Liability -- 14 Juridical Foundations of Common Law Non-Delegable Duties -- 15 Perish Vicarious Liability? -- 16 Comparative Perspectives on Vicarious Liability: Defining the Scope of Employment -- 17 What is a Loss? -- 18 The Changing Face of the Gist of Negligence -- 19 Tort Law in Practice: Appearance and Reality in Reforming Periodical Payments of Damages -- 20 The Structure of the Intentional Torts -- 21 The Role of Intention in the Tort in Wilkinson v Downton -- 22 Where Principle Meets Pragmatism: Tort Law in Post-Colonial Hong Kong -- Epilogue -- Index.

In this book leading tort scholars from across the globe deal with important theoretical and practical issues that are emerging in the law of torts.

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