The Age of Rebuilding: Sketches of the New Italian Private Law

Legal systems in Europe are now converging, and the acquis communautaire is helping this process. Legal cultures are merging too. Legislators and judges can profit from foreign experiences when they try to achieve a satisfactory balancing of conflicting interests. The needs of a general codification are now challenged. It is necessary to 'rebuild' the old machine of the law, taking into account the living sources emerging within society. In Italy, as well as in Europe at large, soft law is now replacing hard law. Italian private law is under a complex and fascinating process of evolution. Its Roman and French roots, and the legacy of the codification age, are now merged with EC law and with other sources of law. This book divided into five parts examines Italian private law. Part I is devoted to the resolution of some of the most important and difficult problems in private law the definition of personal injury and the application of various methods of calculation of damages, theGuido Alpa is the author of 'The Age of Rebuilding: Sketches of the New Italian Private Law', published 2007 under ISBN 9781905221103 and ISBN 190522110X.