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Aspen Treatise for the Law of Torts, Second Edition

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Authors
  • Richard A. Epstein
  • Gregory M. Dickinson
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Book length
864 pages
Publication Date
2025-08-20
Edition
Second Edition
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Description
Table of contents
Preface

Concise yet comprehensive, The Law of Torts illuminates both the basics and the intricacies of tort law for students, courts, and practitioners. The treatise provides a solid foundation in the historical evolution of tort doctrine, and it systematically applies economic analysis and corrective-justice theory to address the major issues facing courts today. This newly updated edition includes a detailed discussion of the Restatement (Third) of Torts and leading contemporary issues in tort law, including public nuisance, global warming, products liability law, and liability of online entities. This completely updated second edition of The Law of Torts builds on its long-standing strengths:

  • Comprehensive Coverage Addresses all topics of the basic Torts, Advanced Torts, Dignitary Torts, and Business Torts courses.
  • Quality of Analysis Thought-provoking and balanced discussion of the underlying theories that shape the tort law in both hard and easy cases.
  • Clarity of Discussion Presents black-letter tort doctrine through both classic and contemporary case law, making it an appropriate companion to any casebook.

The Law of Torts is an invaluable guide to students seeking a solid command of tort law and to the courts and practitioners who continue to shape it.

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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
Preface
Introduction 
Short Reference List 

CHAPTER 1 Intentional Torts 
CHAPTER 2 Defenses to Intentional Harms 
CHAPTER 3 Strict Liability and Negligence: History 
CHAPTER 4 Strict Liability and Negligence: Conceptual
Foundations 
CHAPTER 5 Negligence: Reasonable People and Unreasonable
Risks 
CHAPTER 6 Negligence: Custom and Statute 
CHAPTER 7 Proof of Negligence
CHAPTER 8 Plaintiff’s Conduct 
CHAPTER 9 Multiple Tortfeasors 
CHAPTER 10 Causation 
CHAPTER 11 Affirmative Duties 
CHAPTER 12 Owner’s and Occupier’s Liability 
CHAPTER 13 Traditional Strict Liability
CHAPTER 14 Nuisance 
CHAPTER 15 Products Liability: Theory and History 
CHAPTER 16 Modern Products Liability Law 
CHAPTER 17 Damages
CHAPTER 18 Defamation 
CHAPTER 19 Privacy 
CHAPTER 20 Misrepresentation 
CHAPTER 21 Economic Harms 
CHAPTER 22 Immunities 

Table of Cases 
Bibliography 
Table of Restatement Provisions 
Index
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About the authors
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

Richard A. Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a visiting law professor at NYU from 2007 through 2009. He has served as the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Epstein is also the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. His initial law school appointment was at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. Epstein received an LL.D., h.c. from the University of Ghent, 2003. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001. From 2001 to 2010, he was a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago.

His books include The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act (Hoover 2009); Supreme Neglect: How to Revive the Constitutional Protection of Property Rights (Oxford 2008); Antitrust Decrees in Theory and Practice: Why Less is More (AEI 2007); Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation (Yale University Press 2006); How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (Cato 2006); Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Publishing, 8th ed. 2004); Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago, 2003); Torts (Aspen Publishing 1999); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books, 1998); Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care (Addison-Wesley, 1997); Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard, 1995); Bargaining With the State (Princeton, 1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard, 1992); Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985); and Modern Products Liability Law (Greenwood Press, 1980). He has also edited Cases and Materials on the Law of Torts (9th edition 2008).
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Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2025-08-20
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
864
Paperback
9780735507548
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798894107561
Subject
Tort Law
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