Torts

The chapters in Advanced Tort Law: A Problem Approach focus on five intriguing subjects which normally receive little attention in basic torts courses: misrepresentation, defamation, invasion of privacy, tortious interference, and injurious falsehood. The main instructional feature of Advanced Tort Law: A Problem Approach, Second Edition is the fifty-eight discussion problems. The book addresses numerous practical questions that Americans confront in contemporary life, such as the liability issues that are often on the front lines of litigation in the Digital Age; including issues such as anonymous postings on the Internet or corporate press releases designed to mislead investors.
-Amazon description

The perfect accompaniment to any torts casebook, this text covers all the major cases and issues in a standard torts course. The text addresses cases and analyzes their implications, presenting the law of torts within a curricular context and covering the materials that law students are likely to encounter in a variety of courses. This straightforward, readable text addresses both rules and policy, and presents topics in a way that helps students effectively grapple with issues. Since each chapter stands on its own, the book is ideal as a classroom text, as well as for self-directed reading by students.

Amazon Description: A concise, clear, effective review of Tort law topics organized around the theme of multiple-choice questions. The basic format follows the same structure established by the first title in the series, Joseph Glannon's The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure. The book includes brief explanatory text about the topic under discussion, followed by one or two multiple-choice questions. After each question, the author explains how the correct choice was chosen. Thus the student reviews course content and also learns how to analyze exam questions.
Features:

Integrates multiple-choice questions into a full-fledged review of the first-year Torts course
Lead-up discussion of law in the text prepares students to learn effectively from subsequent questions
Clear explanations of correct and incorrect answers help to clarify nuances in the law
Multiple-choice questions are sophisticated but fair, neither too difficult nor unrealistically straightforward
Equally useful to all students, regardless of whether they will be tested by multiple-choice questions on their exams
Embodies a far more user-friendly and interactive approach than other exam preparation aids
A more challenging final question in each chapter (the "Closer") illustrates a more sophisticated problem in the area under discussion
"Closing Closer"questions in the last chapter provide practice and helpful review of concepts in earlier chapters, meant to test knowledge across the range of Torts issues
Valuable exam-taking pointers interspersed within the substantive text
New to the Second Edition:

New material on "cybertrespass" and other Internet-related intentional tort
Updated material on Supreme Court cases governing the preemption of state tort law claims
Incorporation of material from the newly approved portions of the Restatement Third of Torts, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, including detailed treatment of the Third Restatement's new approach to Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Updated material on the Supreme Court's treatment of constitutional questions concerning the award of punitive damages
Additional Closing Closers

COURSEBOOK - Combining excellence in scholarship and ease of use, this best-selling casebook engages readers in and encourages critical thinking about tort law with its compelling stories, crisply edited classic tort cases, and discussion of legislation and new public policy. Unbiased in its approach and organized in manageable sections of information, the casebook expands law students’ understanding of tort law doctrine and rationale with helpful notes, memorable cases and statutes, and discussion of topics such as the increasing influence of legislatures on the common law of torts.This immensely popular casebook combines the best of the new tort cases while preserving the classics. It captures new trends and controversies in the law of torts, but the cases and notes are presented to allow the Professor to inject his or her perspectives and ideas without fighting the materials. Case selection for principal and note cases favors exemplifying cutting-edge doctrine and policy, while favoring me

Every tort claim for relief, and every affirmative tort defense, has a set of required elements. It is the student's task to learn these elements and to develop an understanding about how to apply them to real and hypothetical fact patterns.

Questions & Answers: Torts can help you with this task. The book includes 202 questions - some tough and some relatively easy - organized by topic. The multiple choice questions might ask you to pick the best of a list, the worst of a list, or the story that illustrates a point of doctrine most effectively. The short answers ask you to analyze scenarios and communicate discrete points. The Practice Final Exam and Essay Issue-Spotter Questions contain an additional 54 questions.

This work, widely relied upon and often cited by the courts, offers comprehensive and concise coverage of the law of torts, with scholarly and analytical discussion of particular rules. The appendices contain Reporter's Notes, citations to court decisions, as well as cross references to key numbers and ALR annotations.

West's Texas Practice Series is a set of volumes that provides comprehensive coverage of many areas of Texas law, and is written by a variety of different practitioners. While there is no volume exclusively devoted to torts, the subject matter is touched upon in several volumes such as Medical Malpractice and Texas Elements of an Action.

First published in 1987, Texas Torts and Remedies has been cited more than 80 times in Texas courtrooms. Its complete and detailed treatment of the substantive Texas law of torts, as well as remedies for tortious injury, has made it an invaluable resource to both personal injury specialists and general practitioners who handle the occasional personal injury case. Updated twice a year, the set tracks recent developments in areas such as government liability, products liability, and workers' compensation.

Texas Torts and Remedies is a great resource to use as your starting point to research the elements of a particular tort. The first volume covers the basic principles and provides cross-references to other chapters that contain in-depth coverage. For an attorney searching for information on an unfamiliar tort, this is timesaving and invaluable. Cross-references and detailed information help you build your case, and the case law analysis provides valuable insight for both the plaintiff and defense attorney. Such thorough information from torts experts Jim Sales and J. Hadley Edgar makes Texas Torts and Remedies the "turn to" guide for personal injury practitioners in Texas.

Tort reform is a favorite cause for many who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare. Less is said about how such reforms might affect the ability of individuals to recover damages for injuries suffered through another party's negligence. Texas--where efforts at tort reform have been energetic and successful--provides an opportunity to appraise the outcome for plaintiffs and their lawyers, an opportunity that Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin take full advantage of in this work. Because much of the action on tort reform takes place on the state level, a look at the experience of Texas, a large and important state with a very active plaintiff's bar, is especially instructive.

The authors explore the impact the tort reform movement in Texas has had on the ability of plaintiffs to obtain judgments--in short on private citizens' meaningful access to the full power of the law. In the course of their analysis, the authors explain the history and economics behind the workings of the plaintiffs' bar. They explore how lawyers select cases and clients, as well as the referral process that moves cases among lawyers and allows for specialization. They also examine the effects of medical malpractice reforms on plaintiffs' lawyers--reforms that often close the courthouse doors to certain types of people--tort reform's "hidden victims." Daniels's and Martin's thorough and fair-minded work offers a unique and sobering perspective on how tort reform can curtail this access--and thus, the legal rights of American citizens

Through its excellence in scholarship, clarity, and ease of use, this casebook engages readers in a critical thinking about tort law. It sets forth crisply edited classic tort cases as well as cases reflecting the newest tort law trends. Its authors are a strong combination of respected scholars and those who practice in the subject. The casebook goes beyond judicial decisions and includes key tort-centered legislation and comparative perspectives where relevant. The casebook encourages the reader to understand the law's foundations and debate modern trends within various policy prescriptions. Unbiased in its approach and organized in manageable sections of information, the casebook is a superb tool for productive and stimulating classroom debate. Tort law doctrine and its rationale will come alive for students. The casebook, proven over 13 editions, assures that our students will be effectively guided to embrace the law of torts as a building block for the remainder of law school and a life in the law beyond. This new edition insures that it will maintain its place as the most widely adopted Torts casebook.
-Publisher's description

This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features: Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation and invasion of privacy. Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions. Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course. In-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy.