Personality Rights in European Tort Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-19491-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 620 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1036 g

Reihe: The Common Core of European Private Law

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of civil liability for invasion of personality interests in Europe. It is the final product of the collaboration of twenty-seven scholars and includes case studies of fourteen European jurisdictions, as well as an introductory chapter written from a US perspective. The case studies focus in particular on the legal protection of honour and reputation, privacy, self-determination and image. This volume aims to detect hidden similarities (the 'common core') in the actual legal treatment accorded by different European countries to personal interests which in some of these countries qualify as 'personality rights', and also to detect hidden disparities in the 'law in action' of countries whose 'law in the books' seem to protect one and the same personality interest in the same way.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brüggemeier, Gert

Colombi Ciacchi, Aurelia

O'Callaghan, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Privat- und Vertragsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: 1. General introduction; 2. Protection of personality rights in the law of delict/torts in Europe: mapping out paradigms; 3. American tort law and the right to privacy; Part II. Case Studies: 4. Case 1: the corrupt politician; 5. Case 2: convicted law professor; 6. Case 3: the paedophile case; 7. Case 4: an invented life story?; 8. Case 5: a former statesman's family life; 9. Case 6: a satirical magazine; 10. Case 7: a snapshot of a person; 11. Case 8: a paparazzo's telephoto lens; 12. Case 9: Naked.Little.Girl.Com; 13. Case 10: the late famous tennis player; 14. Case 11: the popular TV presenter; 15. Case 12: copied emails; 16. Case 13: Brigitte's diaries; 17. Case 14: tape recordings of a committee meeting; 18. Case 15: 'light cigarettes reduce the risk of cancer'; 19. Case 16: doctor's non-disclosure of a foetal disease; 20. Case 17: WAF – a gang of incompetents?; Part III: 21. A common core of personality protection.

Über Autor(innen)

O'Callaghan, Patrick
Patrick O'Callaghan is a Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University Law School.

Brüggemeier, Gert
Gert Brüggemeier is Professor of Private Law, European Economic Law and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty, University of Bremen.

Colombi Ciacchi, Aurelia
Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi is a Senior Researcher at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) at the University of Bremen and a Lecturer in Comparative Law at the Hanse Law School, Bremen.