Understanding Torts (Understanding Series) - Softcover

Diamond, John; Levine, Lawrence; Bernstein, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1531009751 ISBN 13: 9781531009755

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, 2018

Synopsis

This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features:

Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation, and invasion of privacy; Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions; Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course; and In-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy. This edition includes explanation and analysis of new Restatement (Third) Intentional Tort provisions including battery, assault, false imprisonment, and transferred intent as well as proposed new Intentional Economic Tort provisions. The text also includes United States Supreme Court developments limiting punitive damages and other new case law.

About this title

About the Author:

John L. Diamond is Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law. Lawrence C. Levine is Professor of Law at McGeorge School of Law. Anita Bernstein is the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1531009751
• ISBN 13: 9781531009755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 406