State Liability and the Law - A Historical and Comparative Analysis

This book explores the historical foundations of holding public authorities accountable for their acts, and discusses how and why the idea that the state should or should not be held liable became established in the leading European legal systems: Germany, France and Great Britain.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part One : The Institutions and Concepts of State Liability in Selected Legal Systems until the End of the 18th Century
Chapter I: Ancient Greece and Rome
Chapter II: The Middle Ages
Chapter III: The early modern era
Summary of Part One
Part Two: The Development of Contemporary Systems of State Liability for Acts of the Public Authorities
Chapter IV: Germany
Chapter V: France
Chapter VI: England
Summary of Part Two
Part Three: The Problems Associated with State Liability for Legislative Acts
Chapter VII: Liability for acts of the legislator in German scholarship and law
Chapter VIII: Recognition of liability for acts of the legislator in French scholarship and law
Chapter IX. The dogma of lack of liability for acts of the legislator in English scholarship and law
Summary of Part Three
Concluding remarks
Reference list
List of quoted normative instruments
List of quoted judgments

About the author

Bartłomiej Wróblewski is an Assistant Professor of Law at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland.

Summary

This book explores the historical foundations of holding public authorities accountable for their acts, and discusses how and why the idea that the state should or should not be held liable became established in the leading European legal systems: Germany, France and Great Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Bartlomiej (Assistant Professor of Law Wroblewski, Bartłomiej Wróblewski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032354873
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235487-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Legal History
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