Tort Law
A Modern Perspective

This book modernizes the traditional tort law textbook by combining in-depth analysis of policy with detailed discussion of legal doctrine.

Keith N. Hylton (Author)

9781107563421, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 June 2016

460 pages, 15 b/w illus. 4 tables
22.8 x 16.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.65 kg

Tort Law: A Modern Perspective is an advanced yet accessible introduction to tort law for lawyers, law students, and others. Reflecting the way tort law is taught today, it explains the cases and legal doctrines commonly found in casebooks using modern ideas about public policy, economics, and philosophy. With an emphasis on policy rationales, Tort Law encourages readers to think critically about the justifications for legal doctrines. Although the topic of torts is specific, the conceptual approach should pay dividends to those who are interested broadly in regulatory policy and the role of law. Incorporating three decades of advancements in tort scholarship, Tort Law is the textbook for modern torts classrooms.

1. Introduction
2. Policy and tort law
3. Evolution of tort law
4. Intentional torts
5. Theoretical foundations of strict liability
6. The reasonable person
7. Customs, statutes, and the reasonable person
8. Inferring negligence
9. Contributory negligence and assumption of risk
10. Contributory negligence, comparative negligence, and incentives for care
11. Joint and several liability and vicarious liability
12. Factual causation
13. Proximate cause
14. Duty to rescue and special relationships
15. Strict liability: conversion, abnormally dangerous activities, and nuisance
16. Defamation
17. Products liability
18. Damages.

Subject Areas: Torts / Delicts [LNV]