Emerging Issues in tort law / edited by Jason W. Neyers, Erika Chamberlain and Stephen G. A. Pitel.

Other author Neyers, Jason W.
Other author Chamberlain, Erika.
Other author Pitel, Stephen G. A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford, [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub.,
Descriptionxvi, 593 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Torts--United States.

Contents General and special tort law : uses (and abuses) of theory / Peter Cane -- Breach of statute and tort law / Lewis N. Klar -- "Sois sage" : responsibility for childishness in the law of civil wrongs / Shauna Van Praagh -- Claims of involuntary parenthood : why the resistance? / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey -- Liability for psychiatric damage : searching for a path between pragmatism and principle / Michael A. Jones -- Should White v Jones represent Canadian law : a return to first principles / Peter Benson.
Contents Breaches of contracts and claims by third parties / Stephen Waddams -- Policy issues in defective property cases / Stephen Todd -- Defective structures and economic loss in the United States : law and policy / David F. Partlett -- Harm screening under negligence law / Israel Gilead -- Acts and omissions as positive and negative causes / Richard W. Wright -- Decision causation : Pandora's tool-box / Vaughan Black -- Non-delegable duties and vicarious liability / Robert Stevens -- Juridical foundations of common law non-delegable duties / John Murphy.
Contents Perish vicarious liability? / David R. Wingfield -- Comparative perspectives on vicarious liability : defining the scope of employment / Paula Giliker -- What is a loss? / Andrew Tettenborn -- The changing face of the gist of negligence / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam -- Tort law in practice : appearance and reality in reforming periodical payments of damages / Richard Lewis -- The structure of the intentional torts / Ken Oliphant -- The role of intention in the tort in Wilkinson v Downton / Denise Réaume -- Where principle meets pragmatism : tort law in post-colonial Hong Kong / Rick Glofcheski.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2007298276
ISBN9781841137070 (hbk.)
ISBN1841137073 (hbk.)

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