Street On Torts

Street on Torts provides a scholarly and incisive treatment of the law of torts with a focus upon key concepts and clear explanations. This book builds upon the learning of its previous, celebrated authors and, nearly 60 years after publication of the first edition, is considered a classic exposition of the law of torts.

'Street on Torts' provides a scholarly and incisive treatment of the law of torts with a focus upon key concepts and clear explanations.

Street on Torts has long been renowned for its clear and wide-ranging coverage of the law of torts, explaining clearly how torts actually work and the social purposes behind them. The new edition continues to cover the whole range of torts including particularly governmental liability, economic loss, damages, nuisance, standard of care in professional negligence, psychiatric harm and wrongful birth. It also takes account of the growing importance of the Human Rights Act in tort issues.

A law school casebook that maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases. A tort is a wrong that a court is prepared to recognize, usually in the form of ordering the transfer of money (“damages”) from the wrongdoer to the wronged. The tort system offers recourse for people aggrieved and harmed by the actions of others. By filing a lawsuit, private citizens can demand the attention of alleged wrongdoers to account for what they’ve done—and of a judge and jury to weigh the claims and set terms of compensation. This book, which can be used as a primary text for a first-year law school torts course, maps the progression of the law of torts through the language and example of public judicial decisions in a range of cases. Taken together, these cases show differing approaches to the problems of defining legal harm and applying those definitions to a messy world. The cases range from alleged assault and battery by “The Schoolboy Kicker” (1891) to the liability of General Motors for “The Crumpling Toe Plate” (1993). Each case is an artifact of its time; students can compare the judges’ societal perceptions and moral compasses to those of the current era. This book is part of the Open Casebook series from Harvard Law School Library and MIT Press.

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'Street on Tort' has long been renowned for its clear and wide-ranging coverage of the law of torts, explaining how torts actually work and the social purposes behind them. This edition continues to cover the range of torts, and takes account of the growing importance of the Human Rights Act in tort issues.

The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully caused that malady. Yet public attention has focused increasingly on mass personal-injury lawsuits over asbestos, cigarettes, guns, the diet drug fen-phen, breast implants, and, most recently, Vioxx. Richard A. Nagareda’s Mass Torts in a World of Settlement is the first attempt to analyze the lawyer’s role in this world of high-stakes, multibillion-dollar litigation. These mass settlements, Nagareda argues, have transformed the legal system so acutely that rival teams of lawyers operate as sophisticated governing powers rather than litigators. His controversial solution is the replacement of the existing tort system with a private administrative framework to address both current and future claims. This book is a must-read for concerned citizens, policymakers, lawyers, investors, and executives grappling with the changing face of mass torts.