Cases and Materials on Advanced Torts: Economic and Dignitary Torts : Business, Commercial, and Intangible Harms

ISBN-10: 0314151036
ISBN-13: 9780314151032
Category: Law / Torts
Pages: 751
Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: Thomson/West
Authors: Dan B. Dobbs, Ellen M. Bublick

Description

This advanced torts casebook covers all the major business and dignitary torts, including defamation, privacy invasions, disparagement, bad faith breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion of economic values, interference with contract and economic opportunity, unfair competition, and others. It examines essential policy issues involving free speech, free competition, and the question whether contract trumps tort in commercial transactions. It also includes material on developing law, such as internet issues, SLAPP statutes and analogous free speech issues, and the Economic Loss Rule (or Rules).

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