1st Edition

Risk and the Law

Edited By Gordon Woodman, Diethelm Klippel Copyright 2009
218 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

224 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

224 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Natural and man-made risks have long been recognised as vital conditioning factors in the formation of social institutions and the conduct of social life. In this volume internationally recognised experts examine in detail the implications in practice of the modern concept of risk in particular legal fields. The chapters explore the ways in which the law in its many branches can accommodate,... Read more

1. Law and Risk: An Introduction, Tim Kaye  Public Law and Criminal Law  2. Risk Decisions in German Constitutional and Administrative Law, Peter M. Huber  3. The Problem of De-Individualisation in the Risk Society, Oliver Lepsius  4. Risk Decisions in Cases of Persisting Scientific Uncertainty: The Precautionary Principle in European Food Law, Rudolf Streinz  5. Risk and Criminal Law, Gerhard Dannecker  Private Law  6. The Assumption of Risk, Ansgar Ohly  7. Risk and Predictability in English Common Law, Tim Kaye  8. Transfer of Property and Risk of Loss in French, English, and German Law, Ulrich Spellenberg  9. Transit Risks in CIF Contracts – Meaning and Categories, Koji Takahashi  10. Costs and Risk: Recent Developments in the English Law of Costs, Keith Uff  Employment and Social Security  11. The Risk of Sickness in German Labour and Social Insurance Law, Dietmar Boerner  12. ‘The Butcher’s Cart and the Postman’s Bicycle’: Risk and Employers’ Liability, George Applebey  13. The Limits of Individualisation in the Risk Society: Social Security in the Customary Laws of Immigrant Communities, Gordon Woodman

Biography

Gordon Woodman is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Diethelm Klippel is Professor of Private Law and Legal History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.