Advanced Torts : Cases and Materials

by Kutner, Peter B.; Reynolds, Osborne M.

• ISBN13: 9781594602979
• ISBN10: 1594602972
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-04
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr

Summary

The Advanced Torts casebook is designed for courses on the major tort law subjects that are not included in the basic first-year tort courses. The popularity and consistent use of this casebook reflect the fact that the book is unique in its in-depth coverage of advanced torts subjects, which are now the principal growth areas of tort law. Subjects covered in Advanced Torts include defamation, the rights of privacy and publicity, harm to family relationships, wrongful birth, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, interference with common law civil rights, liability for economic loss, interference with contracts, interference with business relations, unfair competition, common law rights to literary and commercial creations and ideas, trade secrets, and other economic torts including injurious falsehood.The third edition maintains the casebook's clear organization and rich range of cases from not only the United States, but also England, Canada, Australia and other common law legal systems-cases selected as the most valuable for instructional purposes as well as for their influence in shaping tort law. New cases and notes, addressing such developing areas as liability for defamation in Internet communications, bring the material fully up-to-date. The casebook has ample material for courses and seminars on economic torts (business torts) or defamation and privacy (tort law and the communications media).

Author Biography

Peter B Kutner is the Hugh Roff Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.Before his retirement, Osborne M. Reynolds, Jr., was the Maurice H. Merrill Distinguished Scholar and he is currently a Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Oklahoma Law Center.

Table of Contents

Family relations	p. 9
Injuries to family members	p. 9
Fatal injuries to family members	p. 52
Interference with family relationships	p. 80
Wrongful birth	p. 116
Economic relations	p. 127
Interference with contractual relations	p. 127
Interference with prospective advantage	p. 170
Unintentional interference	p. 219
Marketplace falsehoods	p. 247
Injurious falsehood	p. 247
Passing off (unfair competition)	p. 272
False advertising	p. 315
Intangible assets	p. 319
Trade secrets and confidential information	p. 319
Literary, artistic and commercial creations	p. 347
Publicity and privacy	p. 399
Appropriation of name, likeness or identity	p. 399
Intrusion	p. 436
Disclosure of private facts	p. 449
False light	p. 483
Review	p. 495
Defamation	p. 501
Defamatory communications	p. 501
Common law defenses	p. 573
Constitutional law	p. 638
Judicial process and civil rights	p. 699
Malicious prosecution	p. 699
Wrongful civil proceedings	p. 716
Abuse of process	p. 733
Interference with civil rights	p. 740
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