Introduction : legislation and the shape of tort law / TT Arvind and Jenny Steele
Torts, courts and legislatures : comparative remarks on civil law codifications of tort law / Willem H. van Boom
Statutes and tort defences / James Goudkamp
The "compensation culture" and the politics of tort / Annette Morris
A civil law for the age of statutes / James Lee
Trade disputes legislation and the economic torts / Bob Simpson
The Fatal Accidents Act 1846 / Donal Nolan
Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 : collisions of a different sort / Jenny Steele
Occupiers' liability : the enactment of "common law" principles / S.H. Bailey
The Animals Act 1971 / Roderick Bagshaw
Tort and personal injuries, 1850 to the present / Steve Hedley
Tort law and workmen's compensation legislation : complementary or competing models? / Simon Deakin
Legislating for economic loss / Keith Stanton
Recovery of state benefits from tort damages : legislating for or against the welfare state? / Richard Lewis
Tort law and compulsory insurance / Rob Merkin and Sheila Dziobon
Tort law, regulation and river pollution : the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act and its implementation, 1876-1951 / Michael Lobban
Tort law, actors in the "enterprise economy", and articulations of nineteenth-century capitalism with law : the Fraudulent Trustees Act 1857 in context / Sarah Wilson
Occupying the field : tort and the pre-emptive statute / Maria Lee
Restraining the state through tort? : The Crown Proceedings Act in retrospect / T.T. Arvind
The Human Rights Act and its impact on the law of tort / Hugh Tomlinson
Bringing statute (back) onto the radar : implications / Jenny Steele.