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| Author / Creator: | Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943- |
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
| Imprint: | Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Law & Business, c2000. |
| Description: | xli, 1430 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4519884 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Physical And Mental Harms
- Chapter 1. Intentionally Inflicted Harm: The Prima Facie Case and Defenses
- A. Introduction
- B. Physical Harms
- C. Emotional and Dignitary Harms
- Chapter 2. Strict Liability and Negligence: Historic and Analytic Foundations
- A. Introduction
- B. The Early Cases
- C. The Forms of Action
- D. Strict Liability and Negligence in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century
- E. Strict Liability and Negligence in Modern Times
- Chapter 3. The Negligence Issue
- A. Introduction
- B. The Reasonable Person
- C. Calculus of Risk
- D. Custom
- E. Statutes and Regulations
- F. Judge and Jury
- G. Proof of Negligence
- Chapter 4. Plaintiff's Conduct
- A. Introduction
- B. Contributory Doctrine
- C. Imputed Contributory Negligence
- D. Assumption of Risk
- E. Comparative Negligence
- Chapter 5. Multiple Defendants: Joint, Several, and Vicarious Liability
- A. Introduction
- B. Joint and Several
- C. Vicarious Liability
- Chapter 6. Causation
- A. Introduction
- B. Cause in Fact
- C. Proximate Cause (Herein of Duty)
- Chapter 7. Affirmative Duties
- A. Introduction
- B. The Duty to Rescue
- C. Duties of Owners and Occupiers
- D. Gratuitous Undertakings
- E. Special Relationships
- Chapter 8. Traditional Strict Liability
- A. Introduction
- B. Conversion
- C. Animals
- D. Ultrahazardous or Abnormally Dangerous Activities
- E. Nuisance
- Chapter 9. Products Liability
- A. Introduction
- B. Exposition
- C. The Restatement
- D. Product Defects
- E. Plaintiff's Conduct
- Chapter 10. Damages
- A. Introduction
- B. Recoverable Elements of Damages
- C. Contingency Fees, Fee-Shifting Devices, and Sales of Tort Claims
- D. Collateral Benefits
- E. Wrongful Death and Loss of Consortium
- F. Punitive Damages
- Chapter 11. The Institution of Insurance
- A. Introduction
- B. The Scope of Insurance Coverage
- C. Ambiguities in the Position of the Liability Insurer
- Chapter 12. The No-Fault Systems
- A. Introduction
- B. Workers' Compensation
- C. No-Fault Insurance
- D. The New Zealand Plan
- Part 2. Torts Against Nonphysical Interests
- Chapter 13. Defamation
- A. Introduction
- B. Publication
- C. False or Defamatory Statements
- D. Libel and Slander
- E. Basis of Liability: Intention, Negligence, and Strict Liability in Defamation
- F. Damages
- G. Nonconstitutional Defenses
- H. Constitutional Privileges
- Chapter 14. Privacy
- A. Historical Background
- B. Intrusion Upon Seclusion
- C. Commercial Appropriation of Plaintiff's Name or Likeness, or the Right of Publicity
- D. Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Facts
- E. False Light
- Chapter 15. Misrepresentation
- A. Introduction
- B. Fraud
- C. Negligent Misrepresentation
- Chapter 16. Economic Harms
- A. Introduction
- B. Inducement of Breach of Contract
- C. Interference with Prospective Advantage
- D. Unfair Competition
- Chapter 17. Tort Immunities
- A. Introduction
- B. Domestic or Intrafamily Immunity
- C. Charitable Immunity
- D. Municipal Corporations
- E. Sovereign Immunity
- F. Official Immunity
- Table of Cases
- Table of Restatement Sections
- Table of Secondary Authorities
- Index