Personality Rights in European Tort Law

Informationen zum Autor Gert Bruggemeier is Professor of Private Law! European Economic Law and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty! University of Bremen. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi is a Senior Researcher at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) at the University of Bremen and a Lecturer in Comparative Law at the Hanse Law School! Bremen. Patrick O'Callaghan is a Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University Law School. Klappentext This collection of case studies from fourteen European legal systems analyses the legal protection of personality interests in Europe. Zusammenfassung Covering areas such as defamation! privacy law and image rights! this collection of case studies from fourteen European legal systems analyses the legal protection of personality interests in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. General introduction; 2. Protection of personality rights in the law of delict/torts in Europe: mapping out paradigms; 3. American tort law and the right to privacy; Part II. Case Studies: 4. Case 1: the corrupt politician; 5. Case 2: convicted law professor; 6. Case 3: the paedophile case; 7. Case 4: an invented life story?; 8. Case 5: a former statesman's family life; 9. Case 6: a satirical magazine; 10. Case 7: a snapshot of a person; 11. Case 8: a paparazzo's telephoto lens; 12. Case 9: Naked.Little.Girl.Com; 13. Case 10: the late famous tennis player; 14. Case 11: the popular TV presenter; 15. Case 12: copied emails; 16. Case 13: Brigitte's diaries; 17. Case 14: tape recordings of a committee meeting; 18. Case 15: 'light cigarettes reduce the risk of cancer'; 19. Case 16: doctor's non-disclosure of a foetal disease; 20. Case 17: WAF - a gang of incompetents?; Part III: 21. A common core of personality protection.

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• Authors: &apos, Gert Br¿ggemeier, Gert (Universitat Bremen) Colombi Cia Bruggemeier, Gert Ciacchi Bruggemeier, Gert Brüggemeier, Ca
• Assisted by: Gert Bruggemeier (Editor), Gert (Universitat Bremen) Bruggemeier (Editor), Gert Brüggemeier (Editor), Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi (Editor), Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi (Editor), Aurelia (Universitat Bremen) Colombi Ciacchi (Editor), Patrick O'Callaghan (Editor), Patrick (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) O'Callaghan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521194914
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19491-4
• No. of pages: 620
• Series: Common Core of European Privat; The Common Core of European Private Law; Common Core of European Privat
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law