Publisher's Synopsis
This book focuses on the German law of torts using the comparative method, making frequent references to American, English and French materials. It includes a commentary on the tort provisions of the German Civil Code, with extensive further references, as well as English translations of over eighty leading decisions of the German Courts. These are translated by such eminent comparatists as the late Professor F.H. Lawson, Professor K. Lipstein, and Mr J.A. Weir. Most of the cases and statutes are accompanied by notes of varying sizes offering the reader in a concise form the parallel solutions of English and American law. This material, based on the author's extensive teaching of comparative law in the USA and Europe, gives the book its interest for students approaching German and comparative law for the first time.;Readership : undergraduate and postgraduate students of German law and comparative law.
