This volume brings together international experts to examine the implications in practice of the modern concept of risk in particular legal fields. The papers question how the law can accommodate, manage, and reduce the extent of risk, a matter of pressing importance for the development of law in all jurisdictions.

1. Law and Risk: An Introduction Public Law and Criminal Law 2. Risk Decisions in German Constitutional and Administrative Law 3. The Problem of De-Individualisation in the Risk Society 4. Risk Decisions in Cases of Persisting Scientific Uncertainty: The Precautionary Principle in European Food Law 5. Risk and Criminal Law Private Law 6. The Assumption of Risk 7. Risk and Predictability in English Common Law 8. Transfer of Property and Risk of Loss in French, English, and German Law 9. Transit Risks in CIF Contracts - Meaning and Categories 10. Costs and Risk: Recent Developments in the English Law of Costs Employment and Social Security 11. The Risk of Sickness in German Labour and Social Insurance Law 12. 'The Butcher's Cart and the Postman's Bicycle': Risk and Employers' Liability 13. The Limits of Individualisation in the Risk Society: Social Security in the Customary Laws of Immigrant Communities

Gordon Woodman is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Diethelm Klippel is Professor of Private Law and Legal History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.