Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (University Casebook Series)

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As a part of our CasebookPlus offering youll receive the print book along with lifetime digital access to the eBook. Additionally youll receive 12-month online access to the Learning Library which includes quizzes tied specifically to your book an outline starter and digital access to leading study aids in that subject and the Gilbert Law Dictionary. The study aids included are Torts in a Nutshell Acing Tort Law and Exam Pro on Torts. The redemption code will be shipped to you with the book. For more than seventy years leading torts scholars at the Yale Law School and elsewhere have used this casebook. It unconventionally begins with strict liability. A recent study published by the Arizona State Law Journal shows that this sequence results in students experiencing a greater appreciation of the judges role as being influenced by social economic and ideological factors and a sense of fairness and less as a process of rule application than do students who begin their study with either intentional torts or negligence. The Sixth Edition is more accessible to students because of substantially expanded textual explanations and more tightly edited opinions. Updates include frequent discussions of Restatement (Third) provisions and a significant number of recently dec(more...)