From Dissonance to Sense: Welfare State Expectations, Privitisation and Private Law

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In a world of increasing privatization, globalization, fragmentation, consumerism, risk, and information, contributors present a comparative analysis of the new role of private law<-->both the common law and continental type<-->with its problems and opportunities. Issues contemplated in 21 articles include: the ways and extent to which welfare state expectations of its citizens can be defended through private law mechanisms as states claim they are overburdened; and the options available when developing modern, or perhaps post-modern, private law. Several fields of private law are mined: e.g. private law theory, tort and liability law, contract law, credit law, and access to justice. The concluding paper invokes Hume and Kant in bridging categories of private and public law. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)