A Torts Anthology

by Levine, Lawrence C.; Davies, Julie A.; Kionka, Edward J.

• ISBN13: 9780870848438
• ISBN10: 0870848437
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Anderson Pub Co

Table of Contents

A Note to Our Readers	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
PART I INTENTIONAL TORTS	1	(42)
Whence Knowledge Intent? Whither Knowledge Intent? 20 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 551 (1987)	2	(7)
David J. Jung
David I. Levine
Transferred Intent, 45 Tex. L. Rev. 650 (1967)	9	(5)
William L. Prosser
The Right to Minimum Social Decency and the Limits of Evenhandedness: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress by Outrageous Conduct, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 42 (1982)	14	(13)
Daniel Givelber
Words That Wound: A Tort Action For Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, 17 Harv. Civ. Rts.-Civ. Lib. L. Rev. 133 (1982)	27	(11)
Richard Delgado
Tortious Necessity; The Privileged Defense, 26 Akron L. Rev. 1 (1992)	38	(5)
John P. Finan
John Ritson
PART II THE NEGLIGENCE CONCEPT---BREACH OF DUTY	43	(104)
The Negligence Concept	43	(7)
Negligence, 29 Harv. L. Rev. 40 (1915)	44	(2)
Henry T. Terry
The Negligence Issue, 37 Yale L.J. 1029 (1928)	46	(4)
Leon Green
The Reasonable Man/Woman/Person/Child	50	(27)
In General	50	(11)
The Qualities of the Reasonable Man in Negligence Cases, 16 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (1951)	50	(6)
Fleming James, Jr.
The Tragedy In Torts, 5 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 139 (1996)	56	(5)
Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.
A Feminist Perspective	61	(16)
A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort, 38 J. Legal Educ. 3 (1988)	61	(6)
Leslie Bender
The Looseness of Legal Language: The Reasonable Woman Standard in Theory and in Practice, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1398 (1992)	67	(10)
Naomi R. Cahn
The Determination of Unreasonableness	77	(20)
Nature of Negligence, 3 Utah L. Rev. 275 (1953)	77	(6)
Fleming James, Jr.
An Economic Perspective	83	(10)
A Theory of Negligence, 1 J. Legal Stud. 29 (1972)	83	(3)
Richard A. Posner
The Invisible Hand Formula, 80 Va. L. Rev. 1015 (1994)	86	(7)
Stephen G. Gilles
Custom	93	(4)
Custom and Negligence, 42 Colum. L. Rev. 1147 (1942)	94	(3)
Clarence Morris
Proof of Breach	97	(20)
Proof of the Breach in Negligence Cases (Including Res Ipsa Loquitur), 37 Va. L. Rev. 179 (1951)	98	(11)
Fleming James, Jr.
Res Ipsa Loquitur and Compliance Error, 142 U. Pa. L. Rev. 887 (1994)	109	(8)
Mark F. Grady
Other Standards of Care	117	(30)
Statutory Standard of Care	118	(9)
Judicial Discretion in Adopting Legislative Standards: Texas's Solution to the Problem of Negligence Per Se?, 49 Baylor L. Rev. 109 (1997)	118	(6)
Paul Yowell
Statutory Standards and Negligence in Accident Cases, 11 La. L. Rev. 95 (1950-51)	124	(3)
Fleming James, Jr.
Professional Malpractice	127	(20)
Custom and Negligence, 42 Colum. L. Rev. 1146 (1942)	127	(2)
Clarence Morris
In Search of a Standard of Care for the Medical Profession: The ``Accepted Practice'' Formula, 28 Vand. L. Rev. 1213 (1975)	129	(10)
Joseph H. King, Jr.
Informed Decision Making and The Law of Torts: The Myth of Justiciable Causation, 1988 U. Ill. L. Rev. 607	139	(8)
Aaron D. Twerski
Neil B. Cohen
PART III LIMITED DUTY	147	(120)
Duty to Control	147	(31)
The Duty to Control the Conduct of Another, 43 Yale L.J. 886 (1934)	148	(5)
Fowler V. Harper
Posey M. Kime
The Tarasoff Decisions: Suing Psychotherapists to Safeguard Society, 90 Harv. L. Rev. 358 (1976)	153	(10)
Alan A. Stone
Tarasoff and the Dilemma of the Dangerous Patient: New Directions for the 1990's, 16 Law & Psychol. Rev. 29 (1992)	163	(5)
Michael L. Perlin
Landlords or Tenants: Who Bears the Costs of Crime?, 2 Cardozo L. Rev. 299 (1981)	168	(10)
Miriam J. Haines
Duty to Rescue	178	(22)
A Theory of Strict Liability, 2 J. Legal Stud. 151 (1973)	179	(3)
Richard A. Epstein
Relying Upon the Reasonableness Of Strangers: Some Observations About The Current State Of Common Law Affirmative Duties To Aid Or Protect Others, 1991 Wis. L. Rev. 867	182	(18)
John M. Adler
Landpossessor Liability	200	(12)
Premises Liability After Repudiation of the Status Categories: Allocation of Judge and Jury Functions, 1981 Utah L. Rev. 15	201	(11)
Carl S. Hawkins
Duty Limited by Kind of Harm	212	(55)
Emotional Distress	213	(20)
Direct Actions for Emotional Harm: Is Compromise Possible?, 67 Wash. L. Rev. 1 (1992)	213	(20)
Julie A. Davies
Wrongful Birth/Wrongful Life	233	(24)
Wrongful Birth: False Representations of Women's Reproductive Lives, 78 Minn. L. Rev. 857 (1994)	233	(14)
Shelly A. Ryan
The Rightful Position in ``Wrongful Life'' Actions, 42 Hastings L.J. 505 (1991)	247	(10)
Michael B. Kelly
Economic Loss	257	(10)
Tort Recovery for Negligently Inflicted Economic Loss: A Reassessment, 37 Stan. L. Rev. 1513 (1985)	257	(10)
Robert L. Rabin
PART IV CAUSE-IN-FACT	267	(42)
The Common Sense of Cause in Fact, 75 Tex. L. Rev. 1765 (1997)	268	(10)
David W. Robertson
Ruminations on Cause-in-Fact, 9 Stan. L. Rev. 60 (1956)	278	(12)
Wex S. Malone
Causation, Valuation, and Chance in Personal Injury Torts Involving Preexisting Conditions and Future Consequences, 90 Yale L.J. 1353 (1981)	290	(11)
Joseph H. King, Jr.
Comment, DES and A Proposed Theory of Enterprise Liability, 46 Fordham L. Rev. 963 (1978)	301	(8)
Naomi Sheiner
PART V PROXIMATE CAUSE---DUTY/RISK	309	(38)
Proximate Cause in Negligence Law: History, Theory, and the Present Darkness, 69 Wash. U. L. Q. 49 (1991)	310	(10)
Patrick J. Kelley
Legal Cause 60 Yale L.J. 761 (1951)	320	(11)
Fleming James, Jr.
Roger F. Perry
Palsgraf Revisited, 52 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (1953)	331	(16)
William L. Prosser
PART VI DEFENSES	347	(42)
Accountability and Comparative Fault, 47 La. L. Rev. 939 (1987)	348	(18)
Dan B. Dobbs
Assumption of Risk After Comparative Negligence: Integrating Contract Theory into Tort Doctrine, 52 Ohio St. L.J. 717 (1991)	366	(10)
John L. Diamond
Assumption of Risk and Consent in the Law of Torts: A Theory of Full Preference, 67 B.U.L. Rev. 213 (1987)	376	(13)
Kenneth W. Simons
PART VII STRICT LIABILITY	389	(34)
The Rule in Rylands v. Fletcher, 59 U. Pa. L. Rev. 298 (1911)	389	(10)
Francis H. Bohlen
A Goals-Oriented Approach to Strict Tort Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities, 48 Baylor L. Rev. 341 (1966)	399	(24)
Joseph H. King, Jr.
PART VIII PRODUCTS LIABILITY	423	(56)
The Invention of Enterprise Liability: A Critical History of the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Tort Law, 14 J. Legal Stud. 461 (1985)	424	(11)
George L. Priest
Rethinking the Policies of Strict Products Liability, 33 Vand. L. Rev. 681 (1980)	435	(8)
David G. Owen
The Meaning of Defect in Products Liability Law---A Review of Basic Principles, 45 Mo. L. Rev. 579 (1988)	443	(7)
W. Page Keeton
Unavoidably Unsafe Products: Clarifying the Meaning and Policy Behind Comment K, 42 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1139 (1985)	450	(10)
Victor E. Schwartz
Doctrinal Collapse in Products Liability: The Empty Shell of Failure to Warn, 65 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 265 (1990)	460	(19)
James A. Henderson, Jr.
Aaron D. Twerski
PART IX DAMAGES	479	(52)
Compensatory Damages	480	(12)
Damages for Pain and Suffering, 19 Ohio St. L.J. 200 (1958)	480	(5)
Marcus L. Plant
Helping Jurors Determine Pain and Suffering Awards, 23 Hofstra L. Rev. 763 (1995)	485	(7)
Oscar G. Chase
Punitive Damages	492	(39)
The American Law Institute, Enterprise Responsibility for Personal Injury, Volume II, Chapter 9: Punitive Damages (1991)	492	(16)
Punitive Damages: Legal Hot Zones, 56 La. L. Rev. 781 (1996)	508	(23)
David F. Partlett
PART X DEFAMATION AND PRIVACY	531
Annals of Law: The Sullivan Case, The New Yorker, Nov. 5, 1984	531	(13)
Anthony Lewis
Hepps, and Liberty Lobby: A New Analytic Primer on the Future Course of Defamation, 75 Geo. L.J. 1519 (1987)	544	(18)
Rodney A. Smolla
Dun
Bradstreet
Privacy, 48 Cal. L. Rev. 383 (1960)	562
William L. Prosser