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How far can tort liability expand without imposing excessive burdens upon individual activity? This comprehensive study of the subject uses a factbased comparative method and indepth research into the laws of thirteen European countries. Many events result in pure economic loss, such as a business being idled by the cut of electricity cables. This controversial issue raises questions which affect the law of tort and contract.
Contents
Preface; Abbreviations; Legislation; Relevant statutory and codified provisions; Table of English and Scottish cases; Part I. Situating the Frontier: 1. The notion of pure economic loss and its setting M. Bussani and V. V. Palmer; 2. The rule against recovery in negligence for pure economic loss: an historical accident J. Gordley; 3.1 Pure economic loss: an economic analysis J. G. Backhaus; 3.2 Liability for pure financial loss: revisiting the economic foundations of a legal doctrine F. Parisi; 4. American tort law and the (supposed) economic loss rule G. T. Schwartz; 5. The liability regimes of Europe: their facades and interiors M. Bussani and V. V. Palmer; Part II. The Comparative Evidence: Case Studies and Editors' Comments: 6. Preliminary remarks on methodology M. Bussani and V. V. Palmer; 7. The case studies; Part III. Much Ado About Something M. Bussani and V. V. Palmer: 8. Summary and survey of the cases and results; 9. General conclusions of the study; 10. The recoverability of pure economic loss in the perspective of a European codification; Bibliography; Index.
Contributors
Mauro Bussani, Vernon Valentine Palmer, Jürgen Backhaus, Estathios Banakas, Willem H. van Boom, Kostas Christodoulou, Lloyd Embleton, James Gordley, Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Alberto Musy, Christel de Noblet, Pedro del Olmo, Fenando Pantaléon, Francesco Parisi, Willibald Posch, Mathias Reimann, Bernd Schilcher, Gary T. Schwartz, Alessandro Simoni, Jorge Sinde Monteiro, Joseph Thomson, Jean-Marc Trigaux
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