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The Glannon guide to torts : learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis / Richard L. Hasen.

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Author/Creator:
Hasen, Richard L.
Language:
English
Imprint:
2nd ed. - New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, c2011.
Format:
  • Book
  • xii, 443 p. ; 26 cm.
Title Variation:
Guide to torts
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-440) and index.
Contents:
  • A very short introduction
  • Torts basics : the prima facie case and affirmative defenses
  • Physical invasions : (harmful) battery, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion
  • Emotional and dignitary torts : assault, offensive battery, and false imprisonment
  • Affirmative defenses to intentional torts
  • Intentional tort frontiers : intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • Introduction to negligence : corrective justice, efficiency, and the choice between strict liability and negligence
  • Breach : the reasonable person standard
  • More ways of proving breach : custom, negligence per se, and res ipsa loquitur
  • Affirmative defenses to negligence : contributory negligence, comparative negligence, and assumption of risk
  • Basic duty rules : foreseeable plaintiffs, the sports cases, and risk creation
  • More duty rules : special relationships, landowners, and negligent infliction of emotional distress
  • Actual cause : "but for" causation, its complications, and exceptions
  • Proximate cause : policy limitations on the scope of liability
  • From traditional strict liability to strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities
  • Nuisance
  • Vicarious liability
  • The prima facie case for products liability torts
  • Products liability torts defenses, including preemption
  • Compensatory damages
  • Mitigation, offsetting benefits, and collateral sources
  • Joint and several liability
  • Punitive damages and their constitutional limitations
  • Closing closers.
Subjects:
ISBN:
9781454804048
1454804041

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