Includes bibliographical references and index.

The many cultures of tort liability / Mauro Bussani and Marta Infantino -- Tort law and conflict of laws / Symeon C. Symeonides -- Tort law and human rights / Eric A. Engle -- Tort and crime / Matthew Dyson -- Liability rules : an economic taxonomy / Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Francesco Parisi -- Tort law and insurance / Ina Ebert -- Alternative compensation schemes from a comparative perspective / Daniel Jutras -- The architecture of the common and civil law of torts : an historical survey / James Gordley -- The bounds between negligence and strict liability / Franz Werro and Erdem Büyüksagis -- Professional liability / Ewoud Hondius -- Product liability / Mathias Reimann -- Causation theories and causation rules / Marta Infantino -- A comparative-law sketch of pure economic loss / Vernon Valentine Palmer -- Tort damages for non-economic losses : personal injury / Stephen D. Sugarman -- Tort law in Japan / Emi Matsumoto -- Chinese tort law : between tradition and transplants / Hao Jiang -- Customary tort law in sub-Saharan Africa / Dominic N. Dagbanja -- Islamic tort law / Abdul Basir Bin Mohamad -- Tort law in Latin America / Marco de Morpurgo.