Tort law : essentials /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Aspen Publishers,
c2008
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| Series: | Essentials (Aspen Publishers)
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Table of Contents:
- The historical development of tort law
- Function and principle
- The fundamental choice: negligence or strict liability?
- Negligence v. strict liability
- Prominent rationales for tort liability
- Compensation as a unified rationale for tort liability
- The nature of a compensatory tort right
- Social construction of tort law
- The intentional torts
- Multiple tortfeasors
- Strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities
- Strict products liability
- Damages
- Beyond tort law