Tort Liability of Public Authorities in European Laws

This series argues that there is a common administrative core to European legal systems that can be better understood in comparative terms. This volume examines government liability in tort, using case studies to explore different government responses.

Part I sets the stage for the project and the parameters followed by the scholars involved. Part II expands on the legal systems chosen for comparison, setting up their general tort procedures. Part III presents case studies from Austria, the European Union, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Each case study has a theoretical response detailing what would happen should that case occur within each country's borders. Part IV compares and contrasts the information provided in Part III. It examines both the commonalities and the distinctive traits of these legal systems, with a view to understand the nature of their 'common core'.

This volume is an essential tool for anyone involved in administrative and constitutional law and government liability in tort.

Giacinto della Cananea, Professor of Administrative Law, Bocconi University,Roberto Caranta, Professor of Administrative Law University of Turin

Giacinto della Cananea is a professor and leading authority on EU administrative law and comparative administrative law. His publications include five monographs, 20 edited volumes, and over 150 articles, book chapters, and comments to judicial decisions on national and EU administrative law, global administrative law, and public finances. He is a co-ordinator of ReNEUAL, and a member of the European Group of Public Law, the European Constitutional Law Network, the Societas Juris Public Europei, and the Dornburg Group of Administrative Law.

Roberto Caranta is a professor in the Law Department of the University of Turin (IT), and Director of the Master's Program on Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development. He works on institutional issues of EU law, and specifically judicial review, environmental law, and public procurement law. He was the General rapporteur to the 2014 FIDE Congress in Copenhagen. He is an editor or co-editor of several texts including the European Procurement Law Series; Cost and EU Public Procurement Law:Life-Cycle Costing for Sustainability (2020); Transparency in EU Procurements (2019); and The Making of a New European Legal Culture: the Aarhus Convention (2018).