Portuguese Report

PERSONALITY RIGHTS AND TORT LAW IN EUROPE, G. Brüggemeier, A. Colombi Ciacchi and P. O’Callaghan, eds., Cambridge, CUP, 2010

Posted: 12 Aug 2010

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Date Written: 2010

Abstract

Contribution to a volume that provides a comprehensive analysis of civil liability for invasion of personality interests in Europe. It is the final product of the collaboration of twenty-seven scholars and includes case studies of fourteen European jurisdictions, as well as an introductory chapter written from a US perspective. The case studies focus in particular on the legal protection of honour and reputation, privacy, self-determination and image. This volume aims to detect hidden similarities (the 'common core') in the actual legal treatment accorded by different European countries to personal interests which in some of these countries qualify as 'personality rights', and also to detect hidden disparities in the 'law in action' of countries whose 'law in the books' seem to protect one and the same personality interest in the same way.

Keywords: Personality rights, European private law, fundamental rights, Portuguese law

Suggested Citation

Ferreira, Nuno and Pais de Vasconcelos, Pedro, Portuguese Report (2010). PERSONALITY RIGHTS AND TORT LAW IN EUROPE, G. Brüggemeier, A. Colombi Ciacchi and P. O’Callaghan, eds., Cambridge, CUP, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1656332

Nuno Ferreira (Contact Author)

University of Sussex ( email )

School of Law, Politics and Sociology
Freeman Building, University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QE
United Kingdom

HOME PAGE: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/396218

Pedro Pais de Vasconcelos

University of Lisbon ( email )

R. Branca Edmée Marques
Dept. Plant Biology
Lisboa, 1600-276
Portugal

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