Torts and Rights

Robert Stevens is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London, and was formerly a lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, where he taught since 1994. He has also lectured at the Universities of Nijmegen and Leiden and for the Judicial Studies Board. He is a commercial barrister. He has published widely on many aspects of private law, always seeking to show how the theory of academic law has practical relevance to the law as found in the courts.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Rights ; 3. Loss ; 4. Remedies ; 5. Fault ; 6. Causation ; 7. Remoteness ; 8. Privity ; 9. Concurrence ; 10. State ; 11. Attribution ; 12. Accessories ; 13. Classification ; 14. Policy ; 15. Justice ; 16. Conclusion

This is a major contribution to the literature, demanding the attention of anyone with a serious interest in the theory of the law of tortious responsibility.