Judicial Reasoning in Tort Law - English and French Traditions Compared

About the author

Dorota Leczykiewicz is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Peter's College, UK.

Summary

This book examines the practice of judicial reasoning in Tort law. Drawing on comparative examples from the French judicial tradition, it connects the choice of approaches in judicial reasoning with its procedural and institutional context.

Foreword

This book examines the practice of judicial reasoning in tort law, understood as a process of justification, consisting of both deductive and non-deductive elements, and therefore involving a significant element of choice or discretion.

Product details

• Authors: Dorota Leczykiewicz, Dorota (University of Oxford Leczykiewicz
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2022
• EAN: 9781849462433
• ISBN: 978-1-84946-243-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, Wales, France, LAW / Torts, comparative law, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts