Torts!, third edition

Jonathan L. Zittrain, Jordi Weinstock

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MIT Press
29 March 2022

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Series: The Open Casebook Series

"A law school casebook that maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases.

A law school casebook that maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases.

A tort is a wrong that a court is prepared to recognize, usually in the form of ordering the transfer of money (""damages"") from the wrongdoer to the wronged. The tort system offers recourse for people aggrieved and harmed by the actions of others. By filing a lawsuit, private citizens can demand the attention of alleged wrongdoers to account for what they've done-and of a judge and jury to weigh the claims and set terms of compensation. This book, which can be used as a primary text for a first-year law school torts course, maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases. Taken together, these cases show differing approaches to the problems of defining legal harm and applying those definitions to a messy world.

The cases range from alleged assault and battery by ""The Schoolboy Kicker"" (1891) to the liability of General Motors for ""The Crumpling Toe Plate"" (1993). Each case is an artifact of its time; students can compare the judges' societal perceptions and moral compasses to those of the current era.

This book is part of the Open Casebook series from Harvard Law School Library and MIT Press."

By: Jonathan L. Zittrain, Jordi Weinstock
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780262543873
ISBN 10: 0262543877
Series: The Open Casebook Series
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Acknowledgments 1 2 Introduction 3 3 Assault and Battery I 7 4 Assault and Battery II: Intent and Autonomy 23 5 False Imprisonment: Taking Care of Others 49 6 Defenses: Overriding the Choices of Others 73 7 Trespass to Chattels: The Limits of Self-Help 97 8 Negligence: The Standard of Reasonable Care 123 9 Negligence: Adjusting the Standard? 149 10 Res Ipsa Loquitur 171 11 Negligence Per Se 193 12 Duty I: Introduction; Action vs. Inaction 213 13 Duty II: Duty to Control Others 239 14 Duty III: Governmental Liability 271 15 Duty IV: Emotional and Economic Harm 299 16 Causation 325 17 Proximate Cause 353 18 Vicarious Liability 385 19 Strict Liability 411 20 Defenses I: Contributory and Comparative Faulty 437 21 Defenses II: Assumption of Risk 463 22 Products Liability I: Manufacturing Defects 485 23 Products Liability II: Design Defect and Warning 515 24 Damages 545 Index of Cases 573

Jonathan L. Zittrain is George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is also Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Cofounder and Director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Jordi Weinstock is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

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