Cases and Materials on Torts

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Little, Brown, 1995 - Law - 1444 pages
The renowned Richard A. Epstein continues to lead your students to a thorough understanding of the moral, economic, and historical underpinnings of tort law in this new, completely updated and streamlined edition of his very successful casebook CASES AND MATERIAL ON TORTS, Sixth Edition, features expanded coverage of toxic torts and joint and several liability revised coverage of product liability the addition of new principal cases, including Rinaldo v. McGovern, Knight v. Jewett, In re Amoco Cadiz, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Haslip, and White v. Samsung Electronics America Key organizational changes-including a chapter that combines joint, several, and vicarious liability, And The grouping of all the materials on intentional torts in Chapter One-enhance the book's teachability As in previous editions, Epstein makes the highly technical issues of modern tort law manageable. In addition to case materials, he incorporates selections from modern legal scholarship that comment on issues raised but not necessarily fully resolved by the cases. Numerous notes discuss ambiguities in the present law And The desirability of alternative legal rules. Your students will find this book-in its reorganized and revised form-particularly readable. Take a fresh look at CASES AND MATERIALS ON TORTS, Sixth Edition-and its excellent Teacher's Manual-for use in your next Torts course.

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Contents

The Prima Facie
3
Nonconsensual Defenses
31
Historic
93
Copyright

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About the author (1995)

Born in 1943, Richard A. Epstein graduated from Columbia in 1964 with a degree in philosophy. He continued his education at Oxford, earning a B.A. in law in 1966, and from there attended Yale, where he received an LL.B. in 1968. Following graduation Epstein joined the faculty at the University of Southern California, teaching there until 1972. He became a regular member of the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1973, where he was named James Parker Hall Professor in 1982 and Distinguished Service Professor in 1988. Richard Epstein writes extensively concerning the law. His works include Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995), Bargaining with the State (1993) and Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws (1992).

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