The author of this second volume continues his quest for the best way of presenting foreign law to Common law readers. The work thus contains essays on methodology, including the horizontal application of human rights, and the tortious liability of statutory bodies.

The author of this second volume continues his quest for the best way of presenting foreign law to Common law readers. The work thus contains essays on methodology: the horizontal application of human rights; the tortuous liability of statutory bodies; the growing impact of human rights law on our law of torts; the differing approaches to problems raised by actions for wrongful life and wrongful birth; differing judicial styles and what they can tell us about a foreign system, as well as the growing use of foreign law by British judges in their judicial and extra judicial work. These essays, along with their rich bibliographical references, aim to provide much food for thought to practitioners in these above-mentioned areas of the law as well as teachers and researchers in the fields of public law, foreign law and legal methodology.

Our debt to Europe - past, present and future
foreign law and foreign ideas in the English courts
the familiarity of the unknown
reading through a foreign judgement
why a code is not the best way to advance the cause of European legal unity
der wachsende einflub der menschenrechte auf das englische deliktrecht
privacy, freedom of expression and the horizontal effect of the Human Rights Bill - lessons from Germany
the applicability of human rights as between individuals under german constitutional law
tortious liability of statutory bodies
judicial style and judicial reasoning in England and Germany
developing an English law of privacy.