"An informational background paper for governmental tort liability...and tort liability issues currently faced by the State of Iowa and its local governments." Includes proposals for legislative consideration and accompanying options.

Comparison of socialist jurisprudence concerning the violation by governmental organs of legal liabilitys in the USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia - comments on the historical background to legislation on tort, the liability of public enterprises, civil servants and public administration, includes legal aspects of ownership in collective economies and covers the relationship of tort law to social security, etc. References.