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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Special Notice | |
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| Intentional Torts | |
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| Fundamental Protections: The Tort of Battery | |
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| The Action for Assault: A Tort Ahead of Its Time | |
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| The Far Side of the Coin: Classic Defenses to Intentional Torts | |
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| The Concept of Negligence | |
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| That Odious Character: The Reasonable Person | |
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| Borrowing Standards of Care: Violation of Statute as Negligence | |
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| A Phrase in Latin: Res Ipsa Loquitur | |
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| The Causation Enigma | |
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| Reconstructing History: Determining "Cause in Fact" | |
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| Risks Reconsidered: Complex Issues in Establishing Factual Cause | |
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| Drawing a Line Somewhere: Proximate Cause | |
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| The Duty Element | |
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| The Elusive Element of Duty: Two Principles in Search of an Exception | |
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| Vicarious Displeasure: Claims for Indirect Infliction of Emotional Distress and Loss of Consortium | |
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| Caveat Actor: Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities | |
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| Strict Products Liability: Basic Theories of Recovery | |
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| More Products Liability: Common "Defenses" to Strict Products Liability Claims | |
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| Damages for Personal Injury | |
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| Personal Injury Damages: The Elements of Compensation | |
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| Astrological Calculations: Valuing Future Damages | |
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| Compensating Somebody: Wrongful Death and Survival Actions | |
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| Interlude: Analyzing a Personal Injury Case | |
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| Some Legal Anatomy: Thinking Like a Tort Lawyer | |
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| Liability of Multiple Defendants | |
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| Joint and Several Liability: The Classic Rules | |
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| Honor Among Thieves: Basic Principles of Contribution | |
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| Please Pass the Liability: Respondeat Superior and Nondelegable Duties | |
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| The Effect of Plaintiff's Conduct | |
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| The Once and Future Defense: Assumption of the Risk | |
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| Casting the Second Stone: Comparative Negligence | |
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| The Fracturing of the Common Law: Loss Allocation in the Comparative Negligence Era | |
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| Taking a Torts Essay Exam | |
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| The Pot at the End of the Rainbow: Analyzing Torts Issues on an Essay Exam | |
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| Dandelions in the Bluebook Garden: Six Classic Exam Writing Mistakes | |
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| Practice Makes Perfect: Examples and Explanations | |
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| Index | |