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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 346.7303 EAN: 9780314150295 ISBN: 0314150293 Label: West Group Publishing Manufacturer: West Group Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1167 Publication Date: 2005-03 Publisher: West Group Publishing Studio: West Group Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: This easy-to-use doctrinal favorite incorporates many cases decided within the last several years. It emphasizes personal injury torts, including civil rights torts, but also covers non-tort systems of compensation, including social security and workers' compensation. Several chapters deal with current medical malpractice and products liability law. (The malpractice chapter has a new section on nursing home liability.) Shorter chapters cover economic and dignitary torts such as defamation, privacy, fraud and others. In approach, this book attempts to present basic concepts such as duty, negligence, cause, scope of risk, and comparative responsibility by using cases and notes that ask for thoughtful analysis and synthesis, as well as respect for facts and policy. The book also investigates such current issues as tort reform and apportionment of responsibility. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good job on the content, editing and flow need a little workI am using this book currently in my torts class. The content is solid however the editing is poor. Grammatical errors can be found throughout the text. Rating:  - Inefficient, mediocre collection of casesAs a first year law student, nobody told me about that some of the books that we are asked to read are not meant to be useful learning aids. I bought this book and did my readings faithfully and diligently for the first couple months of school. Please, do not make the same mistake that I did! Don't use this book as your primary method to learn torts unless you enjoy wasting time and don't want a life outside of the dreary halls of your law school. The book is incredibly ... Read More Rating: - Worst Torts book everI used this book during my first year of law school and found it utterly useless. Aside from the terrible editing, the material is not all that well organized and the book is full of little "mini-cases" which present you with random little holdings of tort law. Furthermore, I found the analysis on some of the more important cases to be deficient. Rating: - gift?since the item that I purchased was categorised as gift, and my intent to buy it just for my friend's birthday, so I hope Amazon could offer some sort of small gift card that I could put my greetings on it before sending to my firend, thanks Rating: - The typos kind of annoy, but the book is informativeLike many students in law school I had to read this book for my Torts class. Our professor did an excellent job with a fairly mediocre book by explaining the concepts and cases at length (and thus eliminating the need for me to go and buy supplemental materials). There are sections of the book that you can gloss over (and this is precisely what our professor had us do) unless you really need to know more about tort wars or statutes of limitations etc. This book is something of a necessary evil for ... Read More |
