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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.