State Liability and the Law Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the historical foundations of holding public authorities accountable for their acts, and discusses how and why the idea that the state should or should not be held liable became established in the leading European legal systems: Germany, France and Great Britain. It shows that the lack of liability for law-making instruments was not an unassailable dogma, and that questions as to whether such liability was possible were being asked from the Middle Ages onwards. The work will b...