Tort Law

Description

Tort Law Concepts and Applications, 2e provides the most comprehensive coverage of substantive American tort law available. This edition features two chapters devoted to intentional torts, two chapters devoted to negligence, and references to the latest cases and statutes. To help students develop in-demand paralegal skills, there are extensive end-of-chapter exercises, online video cases, and an entire chapter devoted to tort practice and applications.

For courses in Torts, Tort Law, and Personal Injury Law.

Tort Law Concepts and Applications, 2e provides the most comprehensive coverage of substantive American tort law available. This edition features two chapters devoted to intentional torts, two chapters devoted to negligence, and references to the latest cases and statutes. To help students develop in-demand paralegal skills, there are extensive end-of-chapter exercises, online video cases, and an entire chapter devoted to tort practice and applications.

1.      Introduction to Tort law

2.      Tort Liability

3.      Intentional Torts against Persons

4.      Intentional Torts against Property and Intentional Torts against Commercial Interests

5.      Intentional Torts: Defenses and Remedies

6.      Negligence: An Introduction, and the Elements of Duty of Care and Breach

7.      Negligence: The Elements of Causation and Damages, Plus Other Negligence-Related Topics

8.      Survival, Wrongful Death, and Wrongful Birth and Life

9.      Defenses to Negligence and Remedies

10.  Introduction to Strict Liability; Harm Caused by Animals and other Abnormally Dangerous Conditions or Activities

11.  Products Liability

12.  Strict Liability Defenses and Remedies

13.  Defamation and Disparagement

14.  Invasion of Privacy

Tort Practice and Applications

Hallmark features of this title

• Covers substantive American tort law better than competing books—see separate chapters on intentional torts (Chapters 3, 4, 5), negligence (Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9), strict liability (Chapters 10, 11, 12), defamation (Chapter 13) and invasion of privacy (Chapter 14).
• Offers discussion-starting videos that can be used for homework assignments, these videos discuss hypothetical tort issues and include discussion questions designed for critical thinking and analysis.
• Balances substantive coverage with practical applications—see Sidebars, Cases on Point, Statutes on Point, Key Points, margin definitions, and legal ethics notes.
• Develops in-demand paralegal skills—using extensive end-of-chapter material that encourages critical thinking and analysis, legal document drafting, conducting legal research, reading and briefing cases, integrating legal ethics rules, using technology/Internet, conducting factual investigations, negotiating, and improving oral and written communication skills.

This second edition clarifies concepts of intentional torts and negligence, while adding a new chapter on tort practice and application. Sixty new Cases on Point and Statutes on Point appear in this edition. 

• New Reorganization splits intentional torts into two chapters (Chapter 3 and 4) and negligence into two chapters (Chapters 6 and 7). Material is reorganized to fit new chapter structure.  
• New Chapter 15: Tort Practice and Applications provides practice drafting tort-related documents and conducting interviews, factual investigations, and negotiations.
• Sixty new Cases on Point and Statutes on Point sections reflect the most recent case law and legislation regarding tort law.
• Earlier coverage of survival, wrongful death, and wrongful birth and life, related to negligence, that is now covered in Chapter 8.  
• Consolidated treatment of the defense of immunity combines the topic with other material in Chapter 9: Defenses to Negligence and Remedies.
• A new overview of a tort case (Chapter 15) outlines elements of a tort case and what to expect when working on one.