Understanding Torts, Sixth Edition

John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine and Anita Bernstein
eISBN-13: 9781531009762

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This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features:

-Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation, and invasion of privacy;
-Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions;
-Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course; and
-In-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy.

This edition includes explanation and analysis of new Restatement (Third) Intentional Tort provisions including battery, assault, false imprisonment, and transferred intent as well as proposed new Intentional Economic Tort provisions. The text also includes United States Supreme Court developments limiting punitive damages and other new case law.

Sold By Carolina Academic Press
ISBNs 153100976X, 9781531009762, 1531009751, 9781531009755
Publish Year 2018
Language English
Number of Pages 406