The Glannon guide to torts : learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis /
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New York :
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business,
c2011
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
| Series: | Glannon Guides Series
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Glannon guide to torts : |b learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis / |c Richard L. Hasen |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Guide to torts |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, |c c2011 | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 443 p. ; |c 26 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-440) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Torts |z United States | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Torts |z United States |v Problems, exercises, etc | |
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