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Authors: Richard A. Epstein
ISBN-13: 9780735569232, ISBN-10: 0735569231
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Date Published: March 2008
Edition: 9th Edition

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Author Biography: Richard A. Epstein

Book Synopsis

Well-known Torts expert Richard A. Epstein skillfully and effectively integrates modern scholarship and historical background in this highly successful casebook. Cases and Materials on Torts , now in its Ninth Edition, is an excellent introduction to

Table of Contents

Part One: Physical and Mental Harms

Chapter 1. Intentionally Inflicted Harm: The Prima Facie Case and Defenses
Chapter 2. Strict Liability and Negligence: Historic and Analytic Foundations
Chapter 3. The Negligence Issue
Chapter 4. Plaintiff’s Conduct
Chapter 5. Multiple Defendants: Joint, Several, and Vicarious Liability
Chapter 6. Causation
Chapter 7. Affirmative Duties
Chapter 8. Traditional Strict Liability
Chapter 9. Products Liability
Chapter 10. Damages
Chapter 11. The Institution of Insurance
Chapter 12. The No-Fault System

Part Two: Torts Against Nonphysical Interests

Chapter 13. Defamation
Chapter 14. Privacy
Chapter 15. Misrepresentation
Chapter 16. Economic Harms
Chapter 17. Tort Immunities

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