Exploring tort law /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xii, 492 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Torts -- United States. Torts Torts. United States. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5701826 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Tort Law in the New Millennium: Past as Prologue:
- 7. Rebuilding the citadel: privity, causation, and freedom of contract
- 8. Controlling the future of the common law by restatement
- 9. Information shields in Tort Law
- 10. The complexity of torts: the case of punitive damages
- 11. The future of proportional liability: the lessons of toxic substance causation
- Part IV. Torts in a Shrinking World:
- 12. Causation in products liability and exposure to toxic substances: a European view
- 13. Collective rights and collective actions: examples of European and Latin American contributions
- 1. Tort Law through time and culture: themes of economic efficiency
- 2. Past as prelude: the legacy of five landmarks of twentieth-century injury law for the future of Torts
- Part II. Compensation and Deterrence in the Modern World:
- 3. Twenty-first century insurance and loss distribution in Tort
- 4. Beyond master-servant: a critique of vicarious liability
- Part III. Duty Rules, Courts, and Torts:
- 5. The disintegration of duty Ernest
- 6. Managing the negligence concept: respect for the rule of law
