INTRODUCTION 1
1 Law and risk： an introduction&TIM KAYE 3
PUBLIC LAW AND CRIMINAL LAW 21
2 Risk decisions in German constitutional and administrative law&PETER M.HUBER 23
3 The problem of de-individualisation in the risk society&OLIVER LEPSIUS 36
4 Risk decisions in cases of persisting scientific uncertainty： the precautionary principle in European food law&RUDOLF STREINZ 53
5 Risk and criminal law&GERHARD DANNECKER 75
PRIVATE LAW 83
6 The assumption of risk&ANSGAR OHLY 85
7 Risk and predictability in English common law&TIM KAYE 95
8 Transfer of property and risk of loss in French， English and German law&ULRICH SPELLENBERG 114
9 Transit risks in CIF contracts - meaning and categories&KOJI TAKAHASHI 132
10 Costs and risk： recent developments in the English law of costs&KEITH UFF 146
EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY 159
11 The risk of sickness in German labour and social insurance law&DIETMAR BOERNER 161
12 ‘The butcher’s cart and the postman’s bicycle’： risk and employers’ liability&GEORGE APPLEBEY 172
13 The limits of individualisation in the risk society： social security in the customary laws of immigrant communities&GORDON R.WOODMAN 184
Index 201