Key Research Interests
My main research interests are: Global Justice and Private law, the Law of Negligence, Comparative Law, European and Global Private Law, French, German and Greek Civil law.
Chapters in Books
- E Pluribus Unus: The UK Mix of Plurality and Uniformity of Laws’ in D Hamberstam and M Reimann (eds) Unification of Laws in Federal Systems (2012) forthcoming
- Private Property, Public Access and Access to Information: A Comparative Analysis’ in G Bruggemeier (ed) Fundamental Rights and Private Law (CUP Cambridge 2010) Vol II 281 (with J Gajdosova)
- Injuries, Damages and a Puzzle: Can an Effect ever Precede its Cause?’, in H-J Ahrens, C. von Bar, Gerfried Fischer, Andreas Spickhoff, J. Taupitz (eds). Medizin und Haftung, Festschrift fuer Erwin Deutsch zum 80. Geburtstag (Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2009) 729-747
- Harmonisation of European Contract Law and General Principles of Contracts: A Common Lawyer’s look into the future’ in Emanuela Navarretta (ed.), Il diritto europeo dei contratti (2008) 539-559.
- Voluntary Assumption of Extra-Contra-Contractual Liability in English Civil Law: A Paradox?’ in Private Law: Past Present and Future (Justitia Vilnius 2008) 33-46
- European Tort Law in the new millennium: Reflections on Dover Beach’, in Liber Amicorum in onore di Francesco D. Busnelli (2008) 271-291.
- Intruding into Contracts between Others –The English Way’, in K. Boele-Woelki, F.W. Grosheide (eds.), The Future of European Contract Law (Kluwer Law International, 2007) 231-246
- Reliance liability in English and German Tort Law. A comparative study’, in Justice in Particular. Festschrift in Honour of Professor P. J. Kozyris, (2007) 41-66
- The Constitutionalisation of Private Law in the United Kingdom: is there an Emperor inside the new Clothes?’, in Tom Barkhuysen/Siewert D. Linderbergh (eds), Constitutionalisation of Private Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers Leiden 2006) 83-96
- What is Tort law for in Today’s World?’ in Essays on Tort, Insurance, Law and Society, in Honour of Bill W. Dufwa, Vol. I (Jure Voerlag AB, Stockholm 2006) 99-109
Journal Articles
- Private Law Remedies and Procedures: A Double-Edged Sword?’ [2010] Journal of Comparative Law 1
- Liability for Contractual Negotiations in English Law: Looking for the Litmus Test’ InDret Comparado, Revista para el Análisis del Derecho Nº1 2009, 1-21
- Unde Venis et Quo Vadis? European Tort law revisited’, in Schweizerisches Zeitschrift fuer Internationales und Europaeisches Recht, No 4 2008, 295-320
- El derecho Europea de Danos en el Nuevo Milenio: Reflexiones en la Playa de Dover’, in Practica Derecho de Danos 62, 4-17 (2008)
- A Global Concept of Justice-Dream or Nightmare? Looking at different Concepts of Justice or Righteousness competing in today’s World’ [2007] Louisiana Law Review 1021-1041
- Causalité juridique et imputation : réflexions sur quelques développements récents en droit anglais’, Revue Lamy Droit Civil, Suppl. au No 40, July/August 2007, 93
- Understanding Trusts: A Comparative View of Property Rights in Europe’, published on-line, InDret 323, 1/2006, 1-9, www.indret.com