Well-established and highly regarded, Street on Torts provides a detailed yet clear overview of tort law, with strong analysis of case law and contextualisation of individual torts. The highly praised broad coverage and logical structure are maintained, ensuring the book remains a classic 50 years after publication of the first edition.
"Street on Torts" clearly explains how torts actually work and the social purposes behind them. The book covers the whole range of torts, including, particularly, negligence, defamation, trespass, the economic...
'Street on Torts' provides a scholarly and incisive treatment of the law of torts with a focus upon key concepts and clear explanations.
Each case is an artifact of its time; students can compare the judges’ societal perceptions and moral compasses to those of the current era. This book is part of the Open Casebook series from Harvard Law School Library and MIT Press.
He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost ...
This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition enables us to understand the law of torts as found in the common law.
Street on Torts
This book makes contributions to the study of the theory, history, and doctrinal structure of tort law.
In a revealing choice of words, Jaffe remarked that, under the statute struck down in Carter Coal, “the majority [of coal producers and unions] secure the power to negotiate a contract which will be binding on all members of the class.
However, this is not an inflexible rule, as Lords Browne-Wilkinson and Steyn noted in Smith New Court Securities Ltd v Scrimgeour Vickers (Asset Management) Ltd.114 So the court can take into account continuing representations and the ...
"Kings of Tort chronicles a tale of judicial bribery and political intrigue in Mississippi ... . It features the story of Dickie Scruggs, who was largely credited with bringing down Big Tobacco in the early 1990s.