Tort Law and Alternatives: Cases and Materials

This leading casebook covers all major aspects of tort law with expertly edited cases and original text, focusing on negligence, strict liability, and no-fault legislation. It also includes comprehensive chapters on products liability, damages and insurance, defamation, privacy, economic torts, and alternatives to tort law. The Eleventh Edition reflects evolving developments in recent case law and legislative activity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1376 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2021
Publisher: West Academic Publishing

This comprehensive casebook delves into all major aspects of tort law, featuring expertly edited cases and original text. Its primary focus lies in the law of negligence, strict liability, and no-fault legislation, as alternative approaches to compensating victims of accidental harm and fostering optimal safety incentives. The chapter on intentional torts has been restructured to serve as an effective introduction to the course for instructors who wish to incorporate it. Additionally, the book offers comprehensive chapters on products liability, damages and insurance, defamation, privacy, economic torts, and a revamped and updated chapter on alternatives to tort law, encompassing the recent tort reforms of the past half-century. Supplementary notes and questions following principal cases aim to enhance students' knowledge about the case's subject matter and related areas, encouraging critical thinking about judicial opinions and tort policy. The Eleventh Edition of this text reflects evolving developments in recent case law and legislative activity, encompassing materials and commentary from the Third Restatement project on Intentional Torts to ongoing tort issues arising from the Internet and significant civil justice concerns of our time.

Weight: 2382g
Dimension: 222 x 261 x 59 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647084899
Edition number: 11 Revised edition