Books written by Vernon Valentine Palmer

  • Pure Economic Loss: New Horizons in Comparative Law

    This book takes a comparative approach to the subject, exploring the principles, policies and rules governing tortious liability for pure economic loss in a number of countries and legal systems across the world.

  • Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family

    This updated second edition includes two new countries (Botswana and Malta) and the appendices explore all other mixed jurisdictions and contain a special report on Cameroon.

  • Pure Economic Loss in Europe

    Needless to say, one cannot take seriously a view which either regards tort liability as a system of independent modules, or attributes a role ... 543 J. S. Colyer, A Modern View of the Law of Torts (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1966), p.

  • Mixed Legal Systems, East and West

    Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study of the world’s legal families to those of jurisdictions containing not only mixtures of ...

  • Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family

    As well as the founding, raison d'etre and evolutionary tendencies of their mixed law components, Palmer also discusses the cultural divisions of the jurists and the internal contradictions between Anglo-American judicial institutions, ...

  • Mixed Legal Systems, East and West

    Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study of the world’s legal families to those of jurisdictions containing not only mixtures of ...

  • Pure Economic Loss: New Horizons in Comparative Law

    This book takes a comparative approach to the subject, exploring the principles, policies and rules governing tortious liability for pure economic loss in a number of countries and legal systems across the world.