Liber Amicorum Pierre Widmer

The Liber Amicorum Pierre Widmer honours an outstanding tort lawyer and leading author of the recent reform of Swiss Tort Law. Renowned tort lawyers from 11 jurisdictions present questions of interest in tort law today. These include current reform projects in various European countries as well as EU-legislation.The book presents such essential topics as for example a view towards a unified European tort law, the position of insurers in the law of torts; as well as controversial issues in national legislations, compensation for immaterial damage, for household chores and for encroachment on the use of goods, questions concerning personal injury and death, product liability, problems of causation, the protection of privacy, the period of expiration, action of dependants, multiple tortfeasors, and no-fault compensation schemes. It also questions traditional legal rules such as "ex turpi causa non oritur actio and "volenti non fit iniuria.

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From the Table of Contents:
L assureur dans l avant-projet de loi fédérale sur la révision et l unification de la responsabilité civile.- The European Frontiers of Tort Liability.- Towards a Better Use of Information in Personal Injury Damages.- Tort Law and No-Fault Schemes.- Causal Uncertainty, Joint and Several Liability and Insurance.- Constitutionalization of Tort Law? An Israeli Perspective.- Europa und sein Deliktsrecht Gründe für und wider die Vereinheitlichung des ausservertraglichen Haftungsrechts.- An Outline of the Spanish Legal Tariffication Scheme for Personal Injury Resulting from Traffic Accidents.- Action of Dependants in South African Law: Direct or Indirect?.- Die Europäische Produkt(e)haftung und die Schweiz mitgegangen, mitgehangen, mitgefangen?.- Deliktsrechtliche Ersatzfähigkeit reiner Nutzungsbeeinträchtigungen an Sachen Ein künftiges Diskussionsthema in der Schweiz?.- Ex Turpi Causa Non Oritur Actio.- The Phantom of a European Civil Code