Advanced Tort Law: A Problem Approach - Hardcover

Johnson, Vincent R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1630447838 ISBN 13: 9781630447830

Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 2014

Synopsis

This textbook is designed for use in upper-level law school courses. It reflects the belief that the most effective teaching materials for students beyond the first year of law school are centered on problems of the kind that lawyers face in practice.Clear Narrative Text. The chapters in Advanced Tort Law: A Problem Approach focus on five intriguing subjects which normally receive little attention in basic torts courses: misrepresentation, defamation, invasion of privacy, tortious interference, and injurious falsehood. In each chapter, the law is laid out in a clear narrative format, which quotes liberally from pertinent court opinions, statutes, and other sources. Because upper-level law students are already well acquainted with the American litigation process, each topic focuses primarily on operative rules and policies, and their application to particular fact situations. The text minimizes the procedural complexities of cases that have already been decided.Fifty-Eight Discussion Problems. The main instructional feature of Advanced Tort Law: A Problem Approach, Second Edition is the fifty-eight discussion problems. Roughly every eight to ten pages, there is a problem for students to prepare in advance of class. A good answer requires a confident grasp of the rules, concepts, and principles addressed in the text or in basic law school courses. The problems, which test whether students have learned the assigned material, are designed to form the basis for classroom discussions. If a class meets twice a week over the course of a typical law school semester, each reading assignment is likely to include about fifteen to twenty pages of reading material and two discussion problems. Other advanced torts books have few or no discussion problems, or contain discussion problems only in some chapters. Advanced Tort Law: A Problem Approach, Second Edition is the only textbook that uses discussion problems as the principal teaching device for every topic in the book

Edition details

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1630447838
• ISBN 13: 9781630447830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 596