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Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, Sixth Edition

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Authors
  • John C. P. Goldberg
  • Leslie Kendrick
  • Anthony J. Sebok
  • Benjamin C. Zipursky
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Book length
1344 pages
Publication Date
2026-03-16
Edition
Sixth Edition
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Table of contents
Preface

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This book presents tort law as a complex but coherent subject. The authors have arranged the materials to be both highly sophisticated and extremely user friendly. Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress has been adopted at schools across the country and always receives high praise from faculty and students for its relevant, contemporary cases, extensive and informative notes, and its 500+ page comprehensive Teacher’s Manual. The Sixth Edition of Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress has been updated to reflect the very latest developments in tort law, including discussions of new developments in civil rights law (pertaining especially to excessive force claims against police), as well as public nuisance, toxic torts, and new draft provisions of the Third Restatement of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons. The book also contains “Check Your Understanding,” “Big Think,” and “Did You Know?” text boxes designed to enable students to engage in self-assessment, along with a user-friendly page layout. A comprehensive set of high-quality PowerPoint slides covering all principal cases is also available to adopters.  

Coverage New to the 6th Edition: 

• Recent public nuisance litigation addressing opioids and social media 

• New section of products liability chapter on AI, software, and social media apps 

• Important changes to tort law in key jurisdictions, such as California and New York 

• Supreme Court updates, including new cases on implied rights of action and the status of wrongful life/wrongful birth claims after Dobbs 

• New Restatement Third of Torts provisions, including on vicarious liability for sexual assault 

• New caselaw on "take-home" employer liability arising from COVID-19 

Professors and student will benefit from: 

• 500+ page Teacher’s Manual has no rival among Torts casebooks. 

• 200+ PowerPoint slides available to adopters can be adapted for use in class, or to help instructors organize their class discussions. 

• Text and notes are fully up to date on the latest developments in tort law, including new Restatement provisions and the latest decisions from state, federal, and foreign courts. 

• More than 20 years of overwhelmingly positive student and instructor feedback from law schools across the U.S. demonstrate that Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress is the most user-friendly Torts casebook on the market. 

• The book is completely contemporary. Classic tort cases are included but, emphasis is placed on modern cases and modern issues that demonstrate tort law’s continued importance and relevance.

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Table of contents

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
Preface to the Sixth Edition 
Preface to the First Edition 
Acknowledgments 
Notes on the Text 


PART I: OVERVIEW 
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Torts 
PART II: NEGLIGENCE: LIABILITY
FOR PHYSICAL HARMS 
Chapter 2 The Duty Element 
Chapter 3 The Breach Element 
Chapter 4 The Causation Element 
Chapter 5 Aligning the Elements: Proximate Cause and Palsgraf 
Chapter 6 Statutory Supplements: Negligence Per Se, Implied
Rights of Action, Wrongful Death and Related Actions 
Chapter 7 Defenses 
Chapter 8 Damages and Apportionment 
PART III: BATTERY, ASSAULT, FALSE
IMPRISONMENT, AND INFLICTION OF
EMOTIONAL DISTRESS 
Chapter 9 Battery, Assault, and False Imprisonment 
Chapter 10 Infliction of Emotional Distress 
PART IV: LIABILITY WITHOUT FAULT AND
PRODUCTS LIABILITY 
Chapter 11 Property Torts and Abnormally Dangerous Activities 
Chapter 12 Products Liability 
PART V: TORTS AT THE SUPREME COURT 
Chapter 13 Torts at the Supreme Court 


Appendix: Materials Concerning Walter v. Wal- Mart Stores, Inc. 
Table of Cases 
Index 

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About the authors
John C.P. Goldberg
Harvard Law School

John C.P. Goldberg is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been a faculty member since 2008. He was previously a professor at Vanderbilt Law School. A leading torts scholar, Dean Goldberg has taught 1L courses in civil procedure, contracts, constitutional law, criminal law, and torts, and has received multiple teaching awards.

Leslie Kendrick
Vice Dean
University of Virginia School of Law

Leslie Kendrick is vice dean of the Law School and director of the Center for the First Amendment at the University of Virginia School of Law. She is co-author of Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, with John C. P. Goldberg, Anthony J. Sebok, and Benjamin C. Zipursky. She is past chair of the AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, a member of the American Law Institute, and an adviser to the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Defamation and Privacy. In 2017, she received the University of Virginia’s All-University Teaching Award. Kendrick received her B.A. in classics and English as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her master’s and doctorate in English literature as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. After attending the University of Virginia School of Law as a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar, she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Justice David Hackett Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Anthony J. Sebok
Professor
Cardozo Law School

Professor Sebok is an expert on legal ethics, litigation finance, tort law, and insurance law. Before coming to Cardozo in 2007, he was the Centennial Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Research at Brooklyn Law School where he taught for 15 years. He was a Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University from 2005-06, and in 1999, he was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Edward N. Cahn of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.Sebok’s casebook, Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, which he coauthored with John Goldberg and Benjamin Zipursky, is used at several leading law schools. He is the author of Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence, articles and essays on jurisprudence, and is the coeditor of The Philosophy of Law: A Collection of Essays. Sebok has served as an expert witness concerning issues of litigation finance and is the Ethics Consultant to Burford Capital. He is a member of the American Law Institute and is an MPRE Subject Matter Expert for the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

Benjamin C. Zipursky
Professor
Fordham Law School

Benjamin C. Zipursky is Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he holds the James H. Quinn ’49 Chair in Legal Ethics and has twice served as Associate Dean (2001-03; 2010-13). He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, and Vanderbilt Law School. Professor Zipursky is a leading scholar in torts, jurisprudence, and legal ethics, and has published more than sixty articles and chapters on subjects ranging from punitive damages and conflicts of interest in mass tort litigation to the varieties of pragmatism within legal philosophy. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad and is the co-author of a leading casebook, TORTS: RESPONSIBILITY AND REDRESS (3d ed. 2012) (with J. Goldberg & A. Sebok) and THE OXFORD INTRODUCTIONS TO LAW: TORTS (2010) (with J. Goldberg).

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Edition
Sixth Edition
Publication date
2026-03-16
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
1344
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9798892075022
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9798892075039
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9798892075053
Subject
Tort Law
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