Book Description

This casebook for law students presents a variety of cases and materials that reflect the alternative visions of tort law as they developed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized into 22 chapters, the cases illustrate such topics as proof of negligence, multiple tortfeasors, affirmative duties, modern products liability law, and economic harms. Tort liability in cyberspace--including trespass to chattels, conversion, and defamation--is given extensive treatment in the eighth edition. Editor Epstein teaches law at the U. of Chicago. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).