Sujet: Assurances maritimes

Coordonnées éditeur:
Centre de Droit Maritime et Océanique
Université de Nantes - Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques
Chemin de la Censive du Tertre - BP 81307 - 44313 Nantes - France
Tél. (33) 2.40.14.15.34 - Fax (33) 2.40.14.15.00
Courriel : cdmo44@yahoo.fr

Source: http://www.droit.univ-nantes.fr/labos/cdmo/centre-droit-maritime-oceanique/cdmo/presentation/rapportac.pdf (p. 29).

Eric Descheemaeker
The Division of Wrongs A Historical Comparative Study Eric Descheemaeker
Oxford University Press (USA), Jan 2009 (à paraître), 300 p., , ISBN13: 9780199562794, ISBN10: 0199562792, $110.00.

Présentation éditeur:
"The common law, despite procedural divisions, has only ever had one class of civil wrongs. The civilians, by contrast, have typically split their law of wrongs in two, one group being called nulldelictsnull and the other nullquasi-delictsnull. Yet this division, which originated in Roman law, remains mysterious: it is clear neither where the line was drawn nor why a separation was made along this line.

This book does two things. In the first two parts, it investigates the origins of the division and its development in a modern civilian jurisdiction, France. What is argued for is that the Roman dichotomy was originally one between fault (culpa)-based and situational liability, which was prompted by a historical contraction of the Roman concept of a wrong (delictum). French law, building on medieval interpretations of the division, redrew the line one level higher, between deliberate and negligent wrongdoing. By doing so, it involved itself in severe taxonomical difficulties, which the book explores.

The third part of the work concerns itself with the significance of the civilian division of wrongs according to degrees of blameworthiness (dolus, culpa, casus) for the common law. A provocative thesis is developed, in effect, that there is a strong case for the adoption of a similar trichotomy as the first-level division of the English law of civil wrongs. From its formulary age, English law has inherited an unstable taxonomy where wrongs intersect. The existence of these mismatched categories continues to cause significant difficulties, which a realignment of causes of action along the above lines would rectify.

About the Author(s) Eric Descheemaeker is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Catherine's College, Oxford".

Source: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/?view=usa & ci=9780199562794

G. J. Toomer, John Selden, A Life in Scholarship
Oxford University Press (USA), April 2009, 1016 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-920703-9ISBN10: 0-19-920703-8, $240.00

Présentation éditeur:
"Professor Toomer's book is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship of John Selden, acknowledged as the most learned man of 17th-century England. All of his numerous published works, especially in the fields of history, law, and Hebraica, are critically examined and described in detail. The narrative also relates his writings to contemporary events, in the Civil War and the parliaments (including the Long Parliament) in which he played a prominent part, and to the work of other scholars in Europe (notably Scaliger and Grotius) and in Britain (including Camden and Ussher). Selden's involvement with the Universities, the support of libraries, and the promotion of scholarship is discussed. The work will be an essential resource, not only for the life of a major figure of his time, but also for the intellectual history of 17th-century England in general. Features The first study to cover all of John Selden's works and examine his scholarship

About the Author(s)
G.J. Toomer was educated in England and the United States, and taught as a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. For many years his scholarly efforts were concentrated on the history of mathematics and astronomy. In these fields, he published what has become the standard translation of the most important ancient astromnomical treatise ( Ptolemy's Almagest , 1984), and the first edition of the Arabic version of the standard work on Conics in antiquity (lost in the original Greek: Apollonius Conics Books V to Vii , 1990). Since retiring he has devoted himself to the intellectual history of early modern Europe, especially 17-th century England, in which he has published an account of the study of Arabic (Eastern Wisedome and Learning , OUP 1996)".

John A. Neuenschwander, A Guide to Oral History and the Law
Oxford University Press (USA), Aug 2009 (à paraître), 192 p., ISBN13: 9780195365979 ISBN10: 0195365976, $74.00.

Présentation éditeur:
"The Oral History Association published the first edition of Oral History and the Law as a 24-page pamphlet in 1986; a second edition (53 pp.) in 1993; and a third edition (93 pp.) in 2002. The need for an expanded, book-length treatment is evident, not because of an upsurge in litigation, but because of the vast expansion in the practice of oral history and the new ways in which interviews are being utlized. Like any growth industry in America, oral history is inevitably intertwined with the legal system from prevention through litigation.

This book covers legal release agreements; protecting sealed interviews and anonymous interviews from courtroom disclosure; defamation; copyright; the Internet; Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), oral history as evidence; the duty to report a crime; and teaching considerations. It also includes examples of best practices and legal precautions, using case studies to illustrate each point.

About the Author(s)
John A. Neuenschwander is Professor of history at Carthage College, municipal judge for the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and site visitor for the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs".

Source: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryOther/IntellectualHistory/?view=usa & ci=9780195365979