Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress (Casebook Series)

By Robert Farris Thompson

Book Overview

The Fourth Edition of Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress has been updated to reflect the very latest developments in tort law, including discussions of the draft provisions of the Third Restatement of Torts concerning intentional torts. The book also contains new Check Your Understanding, Big Thing and Did You Know? text boxes along with a new user-friendly page layout. Thoroughly updated, the revised Fourth Edition includes: The book contains new Check Your Understanding, Big Think and Did you Know? text boxes that enable students to engage in self-assessment as they proceed through class The book has also been updated to reflect the very latest developments in tort law including discussions of the draft provisions of the Third Restatement of Torts concerning intentional torts Chapter 4 has been substantially revised to provide enhanced treatment of actual causation issues, including toxic torts New, user-friendly page layout features helpful photographs, illustrations, and original charts This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735565600
• ISBN13: 9780735565609
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 1143 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.2" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Torts casebook

I ordered this book as a supplement to my paralegal studies. This book has a wide array of cases with opinions form prominent jurists such as; Cardozo, Hand, and Holmes. The field of tort law is a growing, complex, and changing field of law. The editors successfully covered all of the major sections of tort law. There is a lot of explanatory material that I found easy to understand. It doesn't read like a stuffy textbook...

Can you say Palsgraf?

We all know that trial lawyers, and especially personal injury and malpractice litigators, are ruining this country...running our great Nation into the ground and just driving W bonkers. So if you think tort law is getting just a "little too frisky," Goldberg, Sebok, and Zipursky will set you as straight as the day is long. This case book presents an amazingly clear, concise, and well-organized format of caselaw, policy...

An unusually good casebook

Let's face it--casebooks are usually pretty dull. But this one is different. First, the cases are more modern than anything else out there (sure, there are a few unavoidable classics, like Palsgraf, but most are from the past 20 years) and they cover topics of interest to today's students. Second, the questions at the end of each case are actually USEFUL! Having been involved in legal education myself, I've seen a lot...