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Biographical note
Robert Stevens is Professor of Commercial Law at University College London, and was formerly a lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, where he taught since 1994. He has also lectured at the Universities of Nijmegen and Leiden and for the Judicial Studies Board. He is a commercial barrister. He has published widely on many aspects of private law, always seeking to show how the theory of academic law has practical relevance to the law as found in the courts.
This is a major contribution to the literature, demanding the attention of anyone with a serious interest in the theory of the law of tortious responsibility.
European Tort Law
This intelligent and ambitious book is going to influence deeply future discourse.
Russell Brown, Canadian Business Law Journal
Torts and Rights is full of stimulating and provocative analysis and argument, both descriptive and normative. It deserves a large and wide audience.
Peter Cane, The Modern Law Review
In Torts and Rights, Stevens has taken the claim of rights-based theorists one step further and in a far-ranging tour de force shows how most of the well-recognised torts can be understood from this perspective.
JW Neyers, Kings Law Journal
Whilst Stevens audience may not find themselves in agreement with all of his conclusions, few will be able to deny the coherence of his presentation or the clarity of his reasoning. Its impact on the law of torts is bound to be significant; tort lawyers, you have been warned.
Sarah Green, The Cambridge Law Journal
A much clearer and rational analysis of the structure of tort law
Simon Douglas, Law Quarterly Review
Packed with a host of valuable insights
John Murphy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Stevens presents a convincing and hard-hitting rights-based portrayal of the whole of the law of torts in an economical 361 pages.
JW Neyers, King's Law Journal, 19
A valuable contribution to the subject.
Lord Hoffmann, from the Foreword
This is a major contribution to the literature, demanding the attention of anyone with a serious interest in the theory of the law of tortious responsibility.
European Tort Law
This intelligent and ambitious book is going to influence deeply future discourse.
Russell Brown, Canadian Business Law Journal
Torts and Rights is full of stimulating and provocative analysis and argument, both descriptive and normative. It deserves a large and wide audience.
Peter Cane, The Modern Law Review
In Torts and Rights, Stevens has taken the claim of rights-based theorists one step further and in a far-ranging tour de force shows how most of the well-recognised torts can be understood from this perspective.
JW Neyers, Kings Law Journal
Whilst Stevens audience may not find themselves in agreement with all of his conclusions, few will be able to deny the coherence of his presentation or the clarity of his reasoning. Its impact on the law of torts is bound to be significant; tort lawyers, you have been warned.
Sarah Green, The Cambridge Law Journal
A much clearer and rational analysis of the structure of tort law
Simon Douglas, Law Quarterly Review
Packed with a host of valuable insights
John Murphy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Stevens presents a convincing and hard-hitting rights-based portrayal of the whole of the law of torts in an economical 361 pages.
JW Neyers, King's Law Journal, 19
A valuable contribution to the subject.
Lord Hoffmann, from the Foreword