Torts and Regulation: Cases, Principles, and Institutions

by John Fabian Witt

Torts and Regulation: Cases, Principles, and Institutions (TRCPI) is designed to bring together common law principles in the field of torts with related statutory and regulatory materials. The aim is to provide a text that introduces students to key tort principles and the way in which those tort principles have in part shaped the regulatory state and in part been supplanted by the regulatory state.

This casebook increases the role of statutes and regulations in the material. In addition, it offers a major innovation by leading the students into the ways in which basic tort doctrine animate fields of statutory law. In particular, the book adopts a series of “modules” that follow the adoption and adaptation of tort principles in the law of employment discrimination.

The book borrows substantially from a torts casebook co-authored by the author and Karen Tani of the University of California at Berkeley. That book, Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions (4th ed., 2019), supplies much of the basic tort material that follows here in TRCPI.

401,367 Words, 711 Pages in PDF
Published August 2019

711 pages, ebook

Published August 1, 2019

Reviews

[Asma · Rating 1 out of 5]

she res on my ipsa until I loquitur

[kenz · Rating 2 out of 5]

too many cases from 1800s england

[Ananya]

people say “don’t judge that could be you one day.” why would i ever take a package of fireworks on a train

[Maya Huffman · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little more exciting than contracts. Had a little bit more tea to make it kinda fun.

[Jack Flaningam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unless you have a vast interest in court cases and the development of different tort cause of actions, I would imagine, like myself, you have been subjected to this book as a 1L in law school. Very interesting material and has been super informative in helping me understand tortious claims.

Note: If you are not reading this book for pleasure, you may lose your will to live at times going through this casebook. That said, enjoyed some of it, 3⭐️s

[Katie Sanyal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great textbook