Description: This book explores the conceptual place of risk across a number of fields of law.
Brief description:
John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.Review Quotes:
"This timely and impressive volume is the first to treat themes in modern 'liberal' legal theory with systematic reference to the recent sociological literature on risk..." --European Tort Law 2004
"...an excellent purchase for those unfamiliar with contemporary legal perspectives on risk...clearly achieves its aim in demonstrating that legal theory has long concerned itself with risk in various forms..." --The Yearbook of European Law, Vol. 6