Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices

Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices

Description

"Welcome to the first-year course in Torts, the study of civil wrongs. This course offers a sustained exploration of private law remedies for harm arising from both interntional and accidental conduct. Over the semester, we will examine the legal mechanisms--developed by courts and legislatures--for assigning responsibility among private parties when one person's conduct causes injury to another. At the heart of our inquiry lies a fundamental question: when, and under what circumstances, does the law entitle one private citizen to obtain monetary relief from another? We will study what it takes to prevail in a tort action: the doctrinal elements, theoretical foundations, and policy considerations that animate tort law. Alongside foundational cases, we will also encounter the occasional anachronism, doctrinal oddity, or legal relic. Some of these rules have fallen out of favor, and others are making a surprising comeback. From shoppers slipping on rogue pizza slices in a Target aisle to municipalities sued over monkeys escaping from understaffed zoos, tort law is a parade of the improbable. But alongside the eccentric fact patterns lie some of the most serious questions in law--about casuation, intent, and the boundaries of responsibility in everyday life." -- From the Introduction, page 4.

ISBN

N/A

Publication Date

2025

Publisher

H2O, Library Innovation Lab

City

Cambridge, MA

Keywords

Torts, casebook, tort law

Disciplines

Law | Torts

Comments

Full bibliographic details available in IUCAT

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library KF 1249 .L83 2025

Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices

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