Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore, European nationals increasingly join class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about the law of damages in Europe and America. Despite the growing importance of this subject, there is a dearth of material available to practitioners to assist them in advising their clients as to the heads of damage recoverable in other countries. This 2005 book aims to fill that gap by looking at the law in England, Germany and Italy. It sets out the raw data in the wider context of tort law, then provides a closer synthesis, largely concerned with methodological issues, and draws some comparative conclusions.

Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore, European nationals increasingly join class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about the law of damages in Europe and America. Despite the growing importance of this subject, there is a dearth of material available to practitioners to assist them in advising their clients as to the heads of damage recoverable in other countries. This book aims to fill that gap by looking at the law in England, Germany and Italy. The book's introduction sets out the raw data in the wider context of tort law. The final chapter provides a closer synthesis, largely concerned with methodological issues, and draws some comparative conclusions.

The revision 2011 analyzes the development of the law of parentage in a well-founded scientific manner. Among other topics, the central new provision set out in section 1598aand the procedure for enforcing the claim to clarify paternity based on section 1598a are addressed. The competent authority's right to contest in order to prevent the misuse of the acknowledgement of paternity (section 1600 sub-section 1 number 5 and sub-section 6) is also examined. In addition, the commentary takes a critical view of legal and political challenges in this field, such as new forms of artificial reproduction (embryos, embryo donors).