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Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook, now in its eighth edition. The authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its likely development, placing the subject in its socio-economic context, giving students a deeper understanding of tort law.
List of contents
- I Setting the Scene
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Some advice for the novice tort lawyer
- II The Tort of Negligence
- 3: Establishing liability in principle: duty of care
- 4: Liability for fault: breach
- 5: Liability for damage caused: causation and remoteness
- III Special Forms of Negligence
- 6: Liability of occupiers and builders
- 7: Breach of statutory duty
- 8: Liability of public and statutory bodies
- IV Interference with the Person
- 9: Intentional interference
- 10: Malicious prosecution
- V Land, Chattels, and Intentional Interference with Economic Interests
- 11: Interference with chattels
- 12: Trespass to Land
- 13: Nuisance
- 14: Deceit
- 15: The economic torts
- VI Stricter Forms of Liability
- 16: The rule in Rylands v Fletcher
- 17: Liability for animals
- 18: Employer's liability
- 19: Vicarious liability
- 20: Product liability
- VII Protection of Human Dignity (in private law)
- 21: Defamation and injurious falsehood
- 22: The protection of human privacy
- VIII Defences and Remedies
- 23: Defences
- 24: Damages
- 25: Other remedies and multiple liabilities
About the author
Simon Deakin is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge where he teaches private law, labour law and the economics of law. He is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Business Research (CBR) and a Fellow of Peterhouse.
Zoe Adams is Junior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. She is teaches tort law, labour law and the law of economics of law.
Summary
Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well-established textbook, now in its eighth edition. The authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives on the law of tort and its likely development, placing the subject in its socio-economic context, giving students a deeper understanding of tort law.
