Prosser, Wade, and Schwartz's Torts, Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)

Through its excellence in scholarship, clarity, and ease of use, this casebook engages readers in critical thinking about Tort Law and its operation in modern social and technological settings. It sets forth crisply-edited classic tort cases, new Tort Law trends, and nuances in developing case law that impact the law and its application in the real world. Principal cases are not discarded just for the sake of change but because new cases reflect important changes in the law and present current doctrine in insightful and highly effective ways. The casebook goes beyond judicial decisions and includes key tort-centered legislation and comparative perspectives where relevant. In this new edition the notes have been reorganized and labeled and Chapter 1 includes a new overview of the torts practice landscape as well as a procedural map of a typical torts case. The remaining chapters have been updated with respect to key issues such as aiding and abetting (Chapter 2), causation (Chapters 4 and 5) negligence duties (Chapter 8), implied authority (Chapter 13) and new frameworks for nuisance liability (Chapter 16), and emerging considerations stemming from disinformation and generative A.I. (Chapters 17 and 18). Where appropriate, some chapters (such as Chapter 24, Compensation Sys(more...)