Duncan Fairgrieve is Director of the Tort Law Centre at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and is also Maître de Conférences at Sciences Po, Paris.

• Foreword Sir Michael Burton; 1. Introduction Duncan Fairgrieve and Luis Gonzalez Vaque; Part I. Country Reports: 2. The use of comparative law Michael Brooke, Ian Forrester, Nicholas Underhill and Sir Michael Burton; 3. Spanish product liability today - adapting to the 'new' rules Miquel Martin-Casals; 4. Interaction between the European directive on product liability and the former liability regime in Italy Eleonora Rajneri; 5. L'Exception Francaise? The French law of product liability Duncan Fairgrieve; 6. German product liability law Stefan Lenze; 7. Dutch case law on the EU Cees C. van Dam; 8. Defect in English Law - lessons for the harmonisation of European product liability Geraint Howells; Part II. European Influences: 9. Product liability Hans Claudius Taschner; 10. The development risks defence Mark Mildred; 11. Approaches to product liability in the EU and Member States Christopher Hodges; 12. Product liability - a history Geraint Howells; Part III. Comparing Systems: 13. Harmonisation or divergence? Simon Taylor; 14. Product liability law in Centre Europe and the true impact of the product liability directive Magdalena Sengayen; 15. Bugs in Anglo-American products liability Jane Stapleton; 16. Comparing product safety and liability law in Japan Luke Nottage; Appendix.

'This collection of essays presents a comparative study of product liability. … the book raises a number of questions about the current state of product liability legislation in the EU.' Journal of Consumer Policy