The Glannon guide to torts
Subtitle: learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis
By: Richard L. Hasen
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9781454804048
Subjects: Torts; Problems, exercises
Other titles: Guide to torts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-440) and index.
Table of contents: title: A very short introduction; title: Torts basics : the prima facie case and affirmative defenses; title: Physical invasions : (harmful) battery, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion; title: Emotional and dignitary torts : assault, offensive battery, and false imprisonment; title: Affirmative defenses to intentional torts; title: Intentional tort frontiers : intentional infliction of emotional distress; title: Introduction to negligence : corrective justice, efficiency, and the choice between strict liability and negligence; title: Breach : the reasonable person standard; title: More ways of proving breach : custom, negligence per se, and res ipsa loquitur; title: Affirmative defenses to negligence : contributory negligence, comparative negligence, and assumption of risk; title: Basic duty rules : foreseeable plaintiffs, the sports cases, and risk creation; title: More duty rules : special relationships, landowners, and negligent infliction of emotional distress; title: Actual cause : "but for" causation, its complications, and exceptions; title: Proximate cause : policy limitations on the scope of liability; title: From traditional strict liability to strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities; title: Nuisance; title: Vicarious liability; title: The prima facie case for products liability torts; title: Products liability torts defenses, including preemption; title: Compensatory damages; title: Mitigation, offsetting benefits, and collateral sources; title: Joint and several liability; title: Punitive damages and their constitutional limitations; title: Closing closers.