Cases and Materials on Torts

Cases and Materials on Torts
ISBN-10
0316245879
ISBN-13
9780316245876
Series
Cases and Materials on Torts
Category
Law / Torts
Pages
1444
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Little, Brown
Author
Richard Allen EPSTEIN

Description

The renowned Richard A. Epstein continues to lead your students to a thorough understanding of the moral, economic, and historical underpinnings of tort law in this new, completely updated and streamlined edition of his very successful casebook CASES AND MATERIAL ON TORTS, Sixth Edition, features expanded coverage of toxic torts and joint and several liability revised coverage of product liability the addition of new principal cases, including Rinaldo v. McGovern, Knight v. Jewett, In re Amoco Cadiz, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Haslip, and White v. Samsung Electronics America Key organizational changes-including a chapter that combines joint, several, and vicarious liability, And The grouping of all the materials on intentional torts in Chapter One-enhance the book's teachability As in previous editions, Epstein makes the highly technical issues of modern tort law manageable. In addition to case materials, he incorporates selections from modern legal scholarship that comment on issues raised but not necessarily fully resolved by the cases. Numerous notes discuss ambiguities in the present law And The desirability of alternative legal rules. Your students will find this book-in its reorganized and revised form-particularly readable. Take a fresh look at CASES AND MATERIALS ON TORTS, Sixth Edition-and its excellent Teacher's Manual-for use in your next Torts course.

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