The Division of Wrongs
A Historical Comparative Study
Eric Descheemaeker
Reviews and Awards
"Dr Descheemaeker's book is genuinely to be welcomed as a fine piece of historical research and analysis on the doctrine devoted to legal classification." - Geoffrey Samuel, Cambridge Law Journal
"...this book is to be recommended...After two introductory chapters, the work is in three parts...in addition to advancing the overall thesis, each part contains valuable arguments with respect to the specific area considered. For a book which is both intricate and Polyglot, it is written in an accessible style" - James Lee, University of Birmingham, Legal Studies, Vol 30.2
"The current focus of tort scholarship - contemporary comparative analysis - cannot be undertaken properly without an idea of why legal systems structure their tort laws in the way they do. Descheemaeker's book is an invaluable contribution in that respect...The Division of Wrongs is a most impressive contribution to the field of delict. It displays a maturity of analysis and degree of comfort with seminal source material normally found in the work of n established author, and thus all the more remarkable in the first monograph of an academic at the start of his career. This book should certainly find a place in the library of anyone with a serious historical interest in the European law of wrongs." - Martin Hogg, Edinburgh Law Review Vol 14, 2010
"The Division of Wrongs is an inventive and serious addition to the literature...Dr Descheemaeker...demonstrates the value of comparative and historical scholarship for private law jurisprudence." - James Lee, Legal Studies Vol. 30 N0.2, 2010
