The ius commune casebook project fosters cooperation among legal scholars from all over europe they join forces to undertake in depth comparative legal research in various areas of the law the main aim of the project is to enable scholars and students across europe and beyond to study and discuss the same leading cases and materials the casebooks combine extracts from national case law and . The following casebooks are currently available walter van gerven pierre larouche and jeremy lever cases materials and text on national supranational and international tort law oxford hart publishing 2000 this book is the successor of the preliminary volume of the casebook series which dealt with the scope of protection offered by tort lawa second fully revised edition is currently . This is the second edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on contract law in the ius commune series developed to be used throughout europe and aimed at those who teach learn or practise law with a comparative or european perspective. The casebook focuses on uncovering differences and similarities between europes major legal systems french german dutch and english law are examined while austrian and belgian law are also. The ius commune casebook project is a joint initiative of the faculties of law of maastricht univeristy and the university of leuven its aim is to collate case law legislation doctrinal writings and other relevant source materials from the main european legal systems for each main field of the law