The Glannon guide to torts : learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis /
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Language: | English |
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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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Table of 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