Risk and the Law

Abstract

1. Law and Risk: An Introduction, Tim Kaye Public Law and Criminal Law 2. Risk Decisions in German Constitutional and Administrative Law, Peter M. Huber 3. The Problem of De-Individualisation in the Risk Society, Oliver Lepsius 4. Risk Decisions in Cases of Persisting Scientific Uncertainty: The Precautionary Principle in European Food Law, Rudolf Streinz 5. Risk and Criminal Law, Gerhard Dannecker Private Law 6. The Assumption of Risk, Ansgar Ohly 7. Risk and Predictability in English Common Law, Tim Kaye 8. Transfer of Property and Risk of Loss in French, English, and German Law, Ulrich Spellenberg 9. Transit Risks in CIF Contracts - Meaning and Categories, Koji Takahashi 10. Costs and Risk: Recent Developments in the English Law of Costs, Keith Uff Employment and Social Security 11. The Risk of Sickness in German Labour and Social Insurance Law, Dietmar Boerner 12. 'The Butcher's Cart and the Postman's Bicycle': Risk and Employers' Liability, George Applebey 13. The Limits of Individualisation in the Risk Society: Social Security in the Customary Laws of Immigrant Communities, Gordon Woodman