Risk and the law [electronic resource] / edited by Gordon R. Woodman and Diethelm Klippel.
This volume brings together international experts to examine the implications in practice of the modern concept of risk in particular legal fields. The papers question how the law can accommodate, manage, and reduce the extent of risk, a matter of pressing importance for the development of law in al...
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Table of Contents:
- Part Introduction
- chapter 1 Law and risk: an introduction / TIM KAYE
- part Public law and criminal law
- chapter 2 Risk decisions in German constitutional and administrative law / PETER M. HUBER
- chapter 3 The problem of de-individualisation in the risk society / OLIVER LEPSIUS
- chapter 4 Risk decisions in cases of persisting scientific uncertainty: the precautionary principle in European food law / RUDOLF STREINZ
- chapter 5 Risk and criminal law / GERHARD DANNECKER
- part Private law
- chapter 6 The assumption of risk / ANSGAR OHLY
- chapter 7 Risk and predictability in English common law / TIM KAYE
- chapter 8 Transfer of property and risk of loss in French, ULRICH SPELLENBERG / English and German law
- chapter 9 Transit risks in CIF contracts
- meaning and categories / KOJI TAKAHASHI
- chapter 10 Costs and risk: recent developments in the English law of costs / KEITH UFF
- part Employment and social security
- chapter 11 The risk of sickness in German labour and social insurance law / DIETMAR BOERNER
- chapter 12 'The butcher's cart and the postman's bicycle': risk and employers' liability
- chapter 13 The limits of individualisation in the risk society: social security in the customary laws of immigrant communities / GORDON R. WOODMAN.