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The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law : Torts.
Torts - personal injury law - is a fundamental yet controversial part of our legal system. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts provides a clear and comprehensive account of what tort law is, how it works, what it stands to accomplish, and why it is now much-disputed. Professors Goldberg and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Oxford introductions to U.S. law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Note to Readers; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is a Tort? What is Tort Law?; 1.2 The Politics of Tort Law; 1.3 Can Tort Law Be Given a Meaningful General Description?; 1.4 Plan of the Book; CHAPTER 2 A Brief History of Tort Law; 2.1 1250-1800: 'Tort' Law Under the Writ System; 2.2 1800-1870: The Emergence of "Torts" as a Legal Category; 2.3 1870-1980: Modern Tort Law; 2.3.1 Accidents, Negligence, and Products Liability; 2.3.2 Lowered Barriers to Suit, New Claimants, and Deeper Pockets; 2.3.3 Tort Law's Place in the Administrative State.
- 2.4 1980-Present: The Modern Tort Reform EraCHAPTER 3 Tort Law's Gallery of Wrongs; 3.1 Wrongs and Recourse; 3.2 Touring the Gallery: Protected Interests; 3.3 Battery, Negligence, Defective Products, and Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities (Bodily Integrity); 3.4 Assault, False Imprisonment, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, and Workplace Harassment (Personal Space); 3.5 Trespass, Nuisance, and Conversion (Possessory Interests); 3.6 Fraud and Tortious Interference (Freedom of Choice and Contract).
- 3.7 Defamation and Privacy Torts (One's Standing in the Eyes of Others)3.8 Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 Civil Recourse; 4.1 Recourse: The Trial-Centered Account; 4.2 Recourse Today: Settlement, Insurance, Vicarious Liability, Remote Actor Liability, and Aggregate Litigation; 4.3 Why Have a Law of Wrongs and Recourse?; CHAPTER 5 Negligence: The Basics; 5.1 One Tort, Many Iterations; 5.2 The Injury Element; 5.3 The Duty Element; 5.4 The Breach Element; 5.4.1 The Objectivity of the Standard of Care; 5.4.2 Ordinary Care, the Reasonably Prudent Person, and Levels of Care.
- 5.4.3 Fault-Based Liability Contrasted to Strict Liability5.4.4 The Openness of the Standard of Care; 5.5 The Cause Element: Actual Cause; 5.6 Aligning the Elements: Proximate Cause and the Relationality of Breach; 5.6.1 The Relationality of Breach of Duty; 5.6.2 Proximate Cause; 5.7 A Word on Defenses; CHAPTER 6 Negligence: Advanced Topics; 6.1 Limited-Duty Rules; 6.1.1 Liability for Dangerous Conditions on Premises; 6.1.2 Affirmative Duties; 6.1.3 Pure Economic Loss; 6.1.4 Infliction of Emotional Distress; 6.2 Injury and Duty; 6.2.1 Loss of a Chance.
- 6.2.2 Risk of Future Injury and Medical Monitoring6.3 Custom, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Ordinary Care; 6.3.1 Ordinary v. Customary Care; 6.3.2 Ordinary Care v. Cost-Efficient Precautions; 6.4 Presuming Breach; 6.4.1 Res Ipsa Loquitur; 6.4.2 Negligence Per Se and Regulatory Compliance; 6.5 Causation Conundrums; 6.5.1 Overdetermined Causes and Doomed Plaintiffs; 6.5.2 Tortfeasor Identification: Alternate and Market Share Liability; 6.6 Intervening Wrongdoing; 6.7 Immunities and Exemptions; 6.8 Assumption of Risk; 6.8.1 Express Assumption of Risk; 6.8.2 Implied Assumption of Risk.