Main Content
Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:
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Zittrain Torts Playlist Spring 2018
(First created Apr 2018)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: I. Introduction; Assault and Battery I: Reconciling Harm with Culpability/Intro to the course
- 2: II. Assault and Battery: Intent and Autonomy
- 3: III. False Imprisonment: Taking Care of Others
- 4: IV. Defenses: Overriding the Choices of Others
- 5: V. Trespass to Chattels: The Limits of Self-Help
- 6: VI. Negligence: The Standard of Reasonable Care
- 7: VII. Negligence: Adjusting the Standard?
- 8: VIII. Res Ipsa Loquitur
- 9: IX. Negligence Per Se
- 10: X. Duty: Introduction; Action vs. Inaction
- 11: XI. Duty to Control Others
- 12: XII. Duty: Governmental Liability
- 13: XIII. Duty: Emotional and Economic Harm
- 14: XIV. Causation
- 15: XV. Proximate Cause
- 16: XVI. Vicarious Liability
- 17: XVII. Strict Liability
- 18: XVIII. Defenses: Contributory and Comparative Fault
- 19: XIX. Defenses: Assumption of Risk
- 20: XX. Products Liability: Manufacturing Defects
- 21: XXI. Products Liability: Design Defect and Warning
- 22: XXII. Damages
- 23: XXIII. Conclusion
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