The Oxford Introductions to U. S. Law : Torts.

Intro -- Contents -- 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 Era -- CHAPTER 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 Liability -- 5.4.4 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 Monitoring -- 6.3 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 -- CHAPTER 7 Battery, False Imprisonment, Assault, and Related Torts -- 7.1 Battery -- 7.1.1 Act, Intent, Touching -- 7.1.2 Norms of Acceptable Touching -- 7.1.3 Nuances of Intent -- 7.1.4 Defenses -- 7.2 False Imprisonment -- 7.3 Constitutional Torts -- 7.4 Assault -- 7.5 Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress -- 7.6 Workplace Sexual Harassment -- CHAPTER 8 Property Torts, with Notes on Fraud and other "Transactional Torts" -- 8.1 The Structure of Property Torts -- 8.2 Trespass to Land -- 8.2.1 Intent to Touch -- 8.2.2 What Counts as a Touching? -- 8.2.3 Who May Complain? -- 8.2.4 Consent, 'Private Necessity,' and other Defenses -- 8.3 Nuisance -- 8.4 Trespass to Chattel and Conversion -- 8.5 Intellectual Property Torts -- 8.6 Fraud and Other "Transactional Torts".

CHAPTER 9 Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities -- 9.1 Prohibitions, Duties of Care, and Strict Liability: The Case of Blasting -- 9.2 What is an Abnormally Dangerous Activity? -- 9.3 Why Confine Strict Liability to its Narrow Domain? -- 9.4 Does Common Law Strict Liability Belong in the Gallery of Wrongs? -- CHAPTER 10 Products Liability -- 10.1 History -- 10.2 The Cause of Action -- 10.3 Rationales -- 10.4 The Three Kinds of Product Defects -- 10.4.1 Liability for Manufacturing Defect: In What Sense Strict? -- 10.4.2 Design Defect, Negligence, and the Third Restatement -- 10.4.3 Failure to Warn -- 10.5 Moving to Extremes? -- CHAPTER 11 Defamation and Privacy -- 11.1 Defamation: What is the Wrong? -- 11.2 Common Law Defamation -- 11.2.1 Libel -- 11.2.2 Slander -- 11.2.3 Common Law Defamation in Perspective -- 11.3 Contemporary U.S. Defamation Law -- 11.3.1 New York Times v. Sullivan and the Actual Malice Requirement -- 11.3.2 From Public Officials to Public Figures -- 11.3.3 Emphasizing Fault and Falsity -- 11.3.4 The Sullivan Revolution in Perspective -- 11.4 From Reputation to Privacy -- 11.5 The Privacy Torts -- 11.5.1 Publication of Private Fact -- 11.5.2 False Light -- 11.5.3 Appropriation of Likeness -- 11.5.4 Intrusion Upon Seclusion -- 11.5.5 Doctrinal Overlaps and Legislative Initiatives -- 11.5.6 The Supreme Court Intervenes Again -- 11.6 Conclusion -- CHAPTER 12 Damages and Apportionment -- 12.1 Compensatory Damages -- 12.1.1 Make-Whole Compensation -- 12.1.2 The Eggshell Skull Rule -- 12.1.3 Compensatory Damages and Contemporary Tort Reform -- 12.2 Punitive Damages -- 12.3 Apportionment of Liability -- 12.3.1 Joint and Several Liability -- 12.3.2 Contribution -- 12.3.3 The Demise of Joint and Several Liability? -- 12.3.4 A Note on Indemnification and Liability Insurance -- 12.4 Self-Help and Injunctive Relief.

CHAPTER 13 Tort Trends -- 13.1 Wrongs and Rights in a Digitized, Globalized World -- 13.1.1 Internet Wrongs and Privacy Rights -- 13.1.2 Tort Law and Human Rights -- 13.2 Global Integration, Domestic Contraction -- 13.2.1 Federalization -- 13.2.2 Routinization -- 13.2.3 The Constitutionality of Tort Reform -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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 Zipursky offer both a big-picture orientation to torts and a series of detailed 'maps' by which to make sense of its sub-topics.

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