Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law

by Simon F. Deakin, Angus Johnston, Basil Markesinis QC

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law is an authoritative, analytical, and well established textbook. It provides a general overview of the law and full discussion of the academic debates on all major topics for students and their lecturers, highlighting the relationship between the common law,
legislation, and judicial policy. In addition, the authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives upon the law of tort and its likely development, which will also be of interest to practitioners and judges. In this edition the authors have broken the material down into a greater
number of smaller chapters, and restructured the book to bring together closely related topics, mapping to undergraduate law courses. Key recent developments, including the impact of the Human Rights Act, are given clear coverage. Throughout the book the relationship between the common law,
legislation, and judicial policy is a key theme, and economic and comparative analysis of the cases and issues is widely used.

1160 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 2003

Reviews

[Samantha Grigg · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a fan of tort law, it was one of the few course texts I was looking forward to reading, however the writing style isn't engaging so I often found I hadn't took anything in, I was just looking at the page rather than reading it. However it had everything we had to know and certainly portrays it enough, just a shame about the unenthusiastic writing.