Personality Rights in European Tort Law (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521194914)

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of civil liability for invasion of personality interests in Europe. It is the final product of the collaboration of twenty-seven scholars and includes case studies of fourteen European jurisdictions, as well as an introductory chapter written from a US perspective. The case studies focus in particular on the legal protection of honour and reputation, privacy, self-determination and image. This volume aims to detect hidden similarities (the 'common core') in the actual legal treatment accorded by different European countries to personal interests which in some of these countries qualify as 'personality rights', and also to detect hidden disparities in the 'law in action' of countries whose 'law in the books' seem to protect one and the same personality interest in the same way.

Author: Gert Br?gemeier
ISBN-10: 0521194911
ISBN-13: 9780521194914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2010
Pages: 620
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.70w x 1.40d