Glannon Guide to Torts Learning Torts Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis

Name: Glannon Guide to Torts Learning Torts Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis
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ISBN: 9781454804048

ISBN-10: 1454804041

ISBN-13: 9781454804048

Edition: 2nd 2011 (Student Manual, Study Guide, etc.)

Authors: Richard L. Hasen

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A highly effective study tool, The Glannon Guide to Torts usesexplanatory text and multiple-choice questions to thoroughly review coursecontent. The interactive and student-friendly Glannon Guide pedagogyenables students to hone their understanding of torts topics so they can beprepared and confident—in class or taking the final exam.A complete approach to content mastery and exam preparation features:multiple-choice questions that comprise a comprehensive review offirst-year Tortsclear introductions to terms and concepts that prepare students tosuccessfully analyze and answer multiple-choice questionsanalysis of correct and incorrect answers, to clarify murky orambiguous points of…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Publication date: 10/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 443
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English




A Very Short Introduction



Torts Basics: The Prima Facie Case and Affirmative Defenses



Intentional Torts



Physical Invasions: (Harmful) Battery, Trespass to Land, Trespass to Chattels, and Conversion



Emotional and Dignitary Torts: Assault, Offensive Battery, and False Imprisonment



Affirmative Defenses to Intentional Torts



Intentional Tort Frontiers: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress



Negligence



Introduction to Negligence: Corrective Justice, Efficiency, and the Choice Between Strict Liability and Negligence



Breach: The Reasonable Person Standard



More Ways of Proving Breach: Custom, Negligence Per Se, and Res Ipsa Loquitur



Affirmative Defenses to Negligence: Contributory Negligence, Comparative Negligence, and Assumption of Risk



Basic Duty Rules: Foreseeable Plaintiffs, the Sports Cases, and Risk Creation



More Duty Rules: Special Relationships, Landowners, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress



Causation



Actual Cause: ‘‘But for'' Causation, Its Complications, and Exceptions



Proximate Cause: Policy Limitations on the Scope of Liability



Strict Liability Torts



From Traditional Strict Liability to Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities



Nuisance



Vicarious Liability



Products Liability



The Prima Facie Case for Products Liability Torts



Products Liability Torts Defenses, Including Preemption



Damages



Compensatory Damages



Mitigation, Offsetting Benefits, and Collateral Sources



Joint and Several Liability



Punitive Damages and their Constitutional Limitations



Closing Closers