Torts: Cases and Materials

by Aaron D. Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr., Bradley Wendel

This lean casebook is consciously designed to appeal to disenchanted users of the #1-selling Prosser casebook. Its content, organization, and cases-and-notes approach is explicitly modeled on Prosser, but the authors have capitalized on Prosser's weaknesses, focusing on providing key cases and concise, understandable notes. This book has the look and feel of Prosser, but will function much better for the many professors teaching a one-semester, four- or three-credit course.

Features:

Authorship co-reporters of the Restatement (Third) of torts, and both known to be excellent teachers Conveys the core of Tort law through eminently teachable cases and informative topical notes Pedagogical notes challenge students to consider provocative questions about the cases "Authors' Dialogues" feature informal, highly engaging discussions and debates between the authors that raise interesting and provocative points about the topic under consideration while modeling for students the skills of thinking aloud and persuasion Presents 40, 50 three- to five-line hypotheticals that test variations on fact patterns Fewer, more generously edited cases than Prosser Accompanied by a comprehensive Teacher’s Manual that includes answers to the questions raised in the text, informs teachers about the important secondary literature, and provides commentary on the Authors' Dialogues as well as suggestions for using the dialogues in class or as reading assignments New in the Third Edition: New co-author Bradley Wendel is a nationally known expert in the field of Professional Responsibility. He adds professional responsibility and legal ethic insights to the materials. Integrating this dimension to tort litigation issues will provide for exciting class discussion. A thorough integration of the newly completed Restatement (Third ) of Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm to all aspects of the material where the Restatement is of special relevance. Addition of cases adopting the Restatment view that foreseeability is not to be considered in making a duty determination. Many new hypotheticals taken from decided cases that raise novel issues of law. Professor Wendel will now be a third voice in the Authors' Dialogues. All chapters fully updated with new note material and new cases when necessary.

Genres: Law

1014 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 2, 2011

Reviews

[Sophie Nye · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for Torts. It's a pretty traditional casebook. I remember not loving that there would be a bunch of hypos that would have zero explanation at all (I get that some concepts don't have a discrete answer, but it would have been nice if they offered an explanation of that).

[Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bea is driving a manual transmission car (for which she has no license, in violation of a state statute) when she loses control and crashes into a fire hydrant. The broken hydrant spews water all over the street, causing Charlie to lose control of his car and crash into an electricity pole. The pole knocks out electricity on the entire block. Dee is walking in a stairwell in an apartment building on that block when the lights go out, causing her to fall down the stairs and break her leg.

Discuss the rights and liabilities of all the parties.

[Pengyu Jiang · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book tells you frankly what the law of torts is. But it is designed to work with Prof Twerski's classes. In the classes, Prof Twerski will tell you why the cases are there in the book and his criticisms of them. With his comments in the classes, you can see a system of torts law. He has a lot of criticisms about the cases, but his way of saying it is "I don't understand why the court did this when it could do that" rather than "This court is wrong and should do that," so I've learned a very polite way of criticizing people :)