Law school casebook patterned to reflect new developments in tort law and process. The casebook substantially reduces the emphasis heretofore given to negligence law and increases the attention focused on alternatives. Included throughout the book are cases that are useful on issues of substantive law, which also serve as excellent vehicles for an inquiry into process.

"This text, primarily used for first year law students, discusses tort law, which deals with wrongful acts or injury that lead to physical, emotional, or financial damage to a person in which another person could be held legally responsible."--

Each section begins with a clear overview of the key points of the law, before fully explaining and illustrating the topic through substantial case extracts and further commentary."--BOOK JACKET.

G. Edward White's 'Tort Law in America' is regarded as a standard in the field. Concise, accessible and wide-ranging, White's work represents a major work of legal scholarship, providing an enduring intellectual history of American tort law.

This version of Dobbs, Hayden and Bublick's Torts and Compensation is newly streamlined for professors who teach a four-unit course or who want to cover fewer pages per day, yet retain complete coverage. This edition tracks the standard edition, but cuts an additional 300 pages by removing some cases and notes and occasionally trimming a case to a shorter format. This edition also omits chapters concerning defamation, fraud, and other economic and dignitary torts, as well as some material concerning alternatives to Tort law. The result is a substantially shorter casebook that nevertheless provides the coverage most teachers want.

The sixth edition of Tort Law and Practice is now available. Tort Law and Practice provides a rich context for the study of Tort Law. Teachers and students consistently rate this book highly. This innovative casebook thoroughly develops the core torts principles, and has many unique features, such as: Emphasis on contemporary cases while retaining the classic cases; Use of problems (with model answers for teachers) to facilitate learning and application; Variety of negligence duty issues to select from for classroom focus; Balanced presentation of alternative points of view; Inclusion of substantive and damages issues reflecting the diversity of U.S. society; Summary of contents at the beginning of each chapter to help students keep the concepts in focus; Boxed outline summaries and flow charts to facilitate learning; Ethical issues in personal injury cases discussed in context; and practice materials included to help students understand the process. The Fifth Edition of Tort Law and Practice represents the authors' continued efforts to humanize the subject matter of torts and to include issues reflecting the diversity of our society where relevant. Highlights of the new edition include: Chapter 3: Duty -- Tarasoff doctrine: Estates of Morgan v. Fairfield Family Counseling Center Chapter 6: Damages -- extensively reworked, and with a new section on Racial, Gender, Cohabitation & Class Fairness in Tort Chapter 8: Intentional Torts -- New Cases: The Meaning of Intent (Doe v. Johnson) and Emotional Distress in Discrimination Cases (Graham v. Guilderland Central School District) Chapter 10: Products Liability -- New Case on Deviation from Design Specs: Welge v. Planters Lifesavers Co. Chapter 12: Privacy -- New Case on Intrusion: Stengart v. Loving Care Agency The comprehensive Teacher's Manual provides insights to the analysis of the cases, suggested teaching techniques, and model answers to the many problems in the casebook.

This Advanced Torts Book is designed for a two or three hour tort course for students who have had a basic tort class and wish to pursue in-depth some of the important topics of tort law that are either not covered or not covered in much depth in their basic tort course. Unlike some advance torts texts that devote much of their attention to economic and business torts, products liability or toxic torts, this book offers materials on a number of areas: trespass and nuisance, economic torts, products liability, insurance, tort reform and non-tort compensation systems, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, privacy, misuse of legal process and constitutional torts.