• Intentional interference with persons and property
• Defenses to intentional torts
• The negligence concept and the reasonable person standard of care
• The determination of unreasonableness : breach of duty, custom, and the role of the jury
• Proof of breach
• Statutory standards of care : "negligence per se"
• Professional negligence
• Duty in negligence cases
• Land occupier duty
• Duty limited by kind of harm
• Cause-in-fact
• Proximate cause or scope of liability
• Joint and several liability
• Damages
• Defenses
• Strict liability
• Products liability
• Nuisance and trespass
• Economic torts
• Misuse of legal processes
• Defamation
• Invasion of privacy.

"This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation, and invasion of privacy; judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions; clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course; and in-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy. This edition includes explanation and analysis of new Restatement (Third) Intentional Tort provisions including battery, assault, false imprisonment, and transferred intent as well as proposed new Intentional Economic Tort provisions. The text also includes United States Supreme Court developments limiting punitive damages and other new case law"-- Provided by publisher.

• The nature and functions of tort law
• Intentional physical and emotional harm
• The negligence standard
• Proof of negligence
• Cause-in-fact
• The scope of liability : proximate cause
• Defenses based on plaintiff's conduct
• Strict liability
• Products liability
• Damages
• Affirmative and limited duties
• Insurance, tort reform, and no-fault systems
• Reputational and dignitary harms : defamation and invasion of privacy
• Economic harms : misrepresentation, and interference with contract or prospective contractual advantage

The perfect accompaniment to any torts casebook, this text covers all the major cases and issues in a standard torts course. The text addresses cases and analyzes their implications, presenting the law of torts within a curricular context and covering the materials that law students are likely to encounter in a variety of courses. Used successfully by law students for over three decades, this straightforward, readable text addresses both rules and policy, and presents topics in a way that helps students effectively grapple with issues. Since each chapter stands on its own, the book is ideal as a classroom text, as well as for self-directed reading by students.
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• Introduction to tort liability
• The negligence principle
• The duty requirement : physical injuries
• The duty requirement : nonphysical harm
• Factual causation
• Proximate cause (scope of liability)
• Defenses
• Strict liability
• Liability for defective products
• Nuisance
• Damages and insurance
• A survey of alternatives -- Intentional harm
• Defamation
• Protecting privacy
• Intentional economic harm

This leading casebook covers all major aspects of tort law with expertly edited cases and original text. The principal focus of this book is the law of negligence, strict liability, and no-fault legislation as alternative approaches to compensating the victims of accidental harm and creating optimal incentives for safety. The chapter on intentional torts has been restructured to facilitate its use to start off the course for those instructors desiring to do so. The book also includes comprehensive chapters on products liability, damages and insurance, defamation, privacy, economic torts, and a revamped and updated chapter on alternatives to tort law, including the "tort reforms" of the past half century. Notes and questions following principal cases are designed to supplement students' knowledge about the subject matter of the case and related areas as well as to encourage them to think critically about judicial opinions and tort policy. This Eleventh Edition reflects evolving developments in recent case law and legislative activity, as well as materials and commentary ranging from the soon-to-be completed Third Restatement project on Intentional Torts to continuing tort issues arising from the Internet to important civil justice issues of the day.
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• Introduction / Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman
• United States v. Carroll Towing Co. : the hand formula's home port / Stephen G. Gilles
• MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. : Simplifying the facts while reshaping the law / James A. Henderson, Jr.
• Rowland v. Christian : Hallmark of an expansionary era / Robert L. Rabin
• Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California : the therapist's dilemma / Peter H. Schuck and Daniel J. Givelber
• The wagon mound cases : foreseeability, causation, and Mrs. Palsgraf / Saul Levmore
• Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co. : Markets of mothers / Anita Bernstein
• Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co. : whilethe timorous stay at home, the adventurous ride the flopper / Kenneth W. Simons
• Rylands v. Fletcher : tort law's conscience / Kenneth S.Abraham
• Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co.: strict products liability unbound / Mark Geistfeld
• Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co. : liability for harm caused by necessity / Stephen D. Sugarman.

Ideally suited as a supplement in a first-year torts course or as a text for an advanced seminar, Torts Stories provides an enriched understanding of ten leading torts cases, focusing on how the litigation was shaped by lawyers, judges and socioeconomic factors, and why the cases have attained landmark status. The publication provides students with an understanding of ten leading torts cases: United States v. Carroll Towing Co., the Hand Formula's Home Port; MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., Simplifying the Facts while Reshaping the Law; Rowland v. Christian, Hallmark of an Expansionary Era; Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, The Therapist's Dilemma; The Wagon Mound Cases, Foreseeability, Causation, and Mrs. Palsgraf; Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co., Markets of Mothers; Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co., While the Timorous Stay at Home, the Adventurous Ride the Flopper; Rylands v. Fletcher, Tort Law's Conscience; Esc.
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