Exploring Tort Law

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M. Stuart Madden
Cambridge University Press, 2005 M09 26 - 492 páginas
Tort law provides individuals or groups redress for wrongful harm to every dimension of life from physical injury to property damage to personal insult. Over the past decades no body of law within the civil justice system has experienced greater ferment than the law of Torts. This edited collection comprises new scholarship from many of today's most influential contributors to Torts scholarship. Topics include provocative analyses of orginal Tort-type norms; punitive damages; proportional liability; the political-legal dynamics of the Restatement process; landmark modern Torts decisions; the future of collateral source rules relative to various types of insurance; the role of risk information in assignment of seller liability; privity and freedom of contact; the vitality of negligence and duty rules, and optimal rules for vicarious liability. The collection closes with chapters from civil code nation authorities on the European view of causation in toxic harm suits and on collective rights and actions in South America and in Europe.

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RESPECT
4
Stuart Madden
8
THE LEGACY OF FIVE LANDMARKS
52
TWENTYFIRSTCENTURY INSURANCE AND LOSS
81
A CRITIQUE OF VICARIOUS
111
THE DISINTEGRATION OF DUTY
143
PRIVITY CAUSATION
228
CONTROLLING THE FUTURE OF THE COMMON LAW
262
INFORMATION SHIELDS IN TORT LAW
295
THE COMPLEXITY OF TORTS THE CASE OF PUNITIVE
333
THE LESSONS
352
CAUSATION IN PRODUCTS LIABILITY AND EXPOSURE
403
Index
483
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M. Stuart Madden is Distinguished Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law. His primary teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of Torts, Environmental Torts and Products Liability. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves on various policy advisory groups and scholarly advisory boards. He has lectured internationally on Tort and accident prevention subjects and has given testimony before both Houses of Congress on Tort Reform issues.

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