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The Glannon guide to torts : learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis
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- Creator
- Richard L. Hasen
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- Language
- English
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- Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business ; New York : Aspen Publishers, [2009]
- ©2009
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- xii, 435 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780735584808, 073558480X
- OCLC
- ocn300280345
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-432) and index.
- A very short introduction -- Torts basics : the prima facie case and affirmative defenses -- Physical invasions : (harmful) battery, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion -- Emotional and dignitary torts : assault, offensive battery, and false imprisonment -- Affirmative defenses to intentional torts -- Intentional tort frontiers : intentional infliction of emotional distress -- Introduction to negligence : corrective justice, efficiency, and the choice between strict liability and negligence -- Breach : the reasonable person standard -- More ways of proving breach : custom, negligence per se and res ipsa loquitur -- Affirmative defenses to negligence : contributory negligence, comparative negligence, and assumption of risk -- Basic duty rules : foreseeable plaintiffs, the sports cases, and risk creation -- More duty rules : special relationships, landowners, and negligent infliction of emotional distress -- Actual cause : "but for" causation, its complications, and exceptions -- Proximate cause : policy limitations on the scope of liability -- From traditional strict liability to strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities -- Nuisance -- Vicarious liability -- The prima facie case for products liability torts -- Products liability torts defenses, including preemption -- Compensatory damages -- Mitigation, offsetting benefits, and collateral sources -- Joint and several liability -- Punitive damages and their constitutional limitations -- Closing closers