Causation in European Tort Law The Common Core of European Private Law Series

Through a comprehensive analysis of sixteen European legal systems, based on an assessment of national answers to a factual questionnaire, Causation in European Tort Law sheds light on the operative rules applied in each jurisdiction to factual and legal causation problems. It highlights how legal systems' features impact on the practical role that causation is called upon to play, as well as the arguments of professional lawyers. Issues covered include the conditions under which a causal link can be established, rules on contribution and apportionment, the treatment of supervening, alternative and uncertain causes, the understanding of loss-of-a-chance cases, and the standard and the burden of proving causation. This is a book for scholars, students and legal professionals alike.

Part I. Causation in Context: 1. The place and space of causation Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni; 2. Causation in the law: philosophy, doctrine and practice Ingeborg Puppe and Richard W. Wright; 3. Actual causation in the Second and Third Restatements: or, the expulsion of the substantial factor test Anthony J. Sebok; 4. The European ways to causation Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni; Part II. The Comparative Evidence. Case Responses and Editors' Comparative Comments: 5. Preliminary remarks on methodology Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni; 6. The case studies; Part III. The Comparative Assessment: 7. Summary and survey of the results Marta Infantino and Eleni Zervogianni.

Marta Infantino is Assistant Professor in the Legal Department at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. She has published extensively in Italian, English and French on comparative contract law, comparative tort law, human rights and global legal indicators. Some of her works have been translated into Chinese and Spanish. Her monograph on causation was awarded the Italian Lynx Academy's prize for emerging authors in 2013.
Eleni Zervogianni is Assistant Professor of Civil Law in the Law Faculty at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research focuses mainly on the law of obligations as well as family and succession law, both from a national and comparative law perspective. She is the author of two monographs and more than fifty articles and contributions to collective works in Greek, English and German.