Product Review

This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features:

•   Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation and invasion of privacy.

•   Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions.

•   Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course.

•   In-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy.