Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives on Tort Law

By:   Mauro Bussani (Professor of Comparative Law Professor of Comparative Law University of Trieste), Anthony Sebok (Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University), Marta Infantino (Professor of Comparative Law, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Trieste)
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 165mm,  Width: 246mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780195368383
ISBN 10:   019536838X
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   15 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mauro Bussani (PhD h.c., Fribourg, Switzerland) is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Trieste, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Macao, S.A.R. of the P.R. of China. He has been Visiting Professor in the US, Canada, Brazil, France, Switzerland, the UK, Portugal, Serbia, Hungary, Israel, and China. He is Member of the American Law Institute and Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He is co-editor of four book series and co-authored 30 books and more than 160 essays, in Italian, English and French (many of which were translated in other languages). Anthony J. Sebok is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, US and Distinguished Research Professor at the College of Law, Swansea University, UK. He is an expert on legal ethics, litigation finance, tort law, and insurance law. His casebook, Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (coauthored with John Goldberg, Benjamin Zipursky, and Leslie Kendrick), is used at several leading law schools. Sebok is the Ethics Consultant to Burford Capital, a member of the American Law Institute and an MPRE Subject Matter Expert for the National Conference of Bar Examiners. Marta Infantino, Ph.D. (Palermo), LL.M. (NYU School of Law), is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Trieste, Italy. She has hold visiting professorship in Canada, Colombia, and France. She is Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and former member of the Scientific Council of the European Law Institute. She has published extensively on comparative contract law, comparative tort law, human rights, and global indicators. Her monograph on causation, La causalità nella responsabilità extracontrattuale (2012) was awarded the Italian Lynx Academy's prize for emerging authors in 2013.