Personality Rights in European Tort Law (The Common Core of European Private Law)

Cambridge University Press, 4/15/2010
EAN 9780521194914, ISBN10: 0521194911

Hardcover, 620 pages, 22.9 x 15.9 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

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.