The Glannon guide to torts : learning torts through multiple-choice questions and analysis

The proven Glannon Guide is a user-friendly study aid to use throughout the semester as a great supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Topics are broken down into manageable pieces and are explained in a conversational tone. Chapters are interspersed with hypotheticals like those posed in the classroom that include analysis of answers to ensure thorough understanding. Additionally, The Closer questions pose sophisticated hypotheticals at the end of each chapter to present cumulative review of earlier topics. More like classroom experiences, the Glannon Guide provides you with straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes the material stick.

The user-friendly Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture.

The material is broken into small, manageable pieces to help you master concepts. Multiple-choice questions are interspersed throughout each chapter (not lumped at the end) to mirror the flow of a classroom lecture. Correct and incorrect answers are carefully explained; you learn why they do or do not work. You can rely on authority; the series was created by Joseph W. Glannon Harvard-educated, best-selling author of, among other legal texts, Examples & Explanations; Civil Procedure , now in its sixth edition. The Closer poses a sophisticated problem question at the end of each chapter to test your comprehension. A final Closing Closer provides you practice opportunity as well as a cumulative review of all the concepts from earlier chapters. You can check your understanding each step of the way. More like classroom experiences, these Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes the material stick.

• Acknowledgments p. xi
• 1 A Very Short Introduction p. 1
• 2 Torts Basics: The Prima Facie Case and Affirmative Defenses p. 3
• Part I Intentional Torts p. 13
• 3 Physical Invasions: (Harmful) Battery, Purposeful Infliction of Bodily Harm, Trespass to Land, Trespass to Chattels, and Conversion p. 15
• 4 Emotional and Dignitary Torts: Assault, Offensive Battery, and False Imprisonment p. 45
• 5 Affirmative Defenses to Intentional Torts p. 67
• 6 Intentional Tort Frontiers: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress p. 89
• Part II Negligence p. 105
• 7 Introduction to Negligence: Corrective Justice, Efficiency, and the Choice Between Strict Liability and Negligence p. 107
• 8 Breach: The Reasonable Person Standard p. 121
• 9 More Ways of Proving Breach: Custom, Negligence Per Se, and Res Ipsa Loquitur p. 141
• 10 Affirmative Defenses to Negligence: Contributory Negligence, Comparative Negligence, and Assumption of Risk p. 163
• 11 Basic Duty Rules: Foreseeable Plaintiffs, the Sports Cases, and Risk Creation p. 179
• 12 More Duty Rules: Special Relationships, Landowners, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress p. 199
• Part III Causation p. 217
• 13 Actual Cause: "But for" Causation, Its Complications, and Exceptions p. 219
• 14 Proximate Cause: Policy Limitations on the Scope of Liability p. 241
• Part IV Strict Liability Torts p. 259
• 15 From Traditional Strict Liability to Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities p. 261
• 16 Nuisance p. 279
• 17 Vicarious Liability p. 295
• Part V Products Liability p. 309
• 18 The Prima Facie Case for Products Liability Torts p. 311
• 19 Products Liability Torts Defenses, Including Preemption p. 335
• Part VI Damages p. 349
• 20 Compensatory Damages p. 351
• 21 Mitigation, Offsetting Benefits, and Collateral Sources p. 369
• 22 Joint and Several Liability p. 383
• 23 Punitive Damages and Their Constitutional Limitations p. 397
• 24 Closing Closers p. 417
• Table of Cases p. 433
• Table of Restatement Sections Cited p. 439
• Table of Books and Articles Cited p. 441
• Index p. 443