Torts category: 134 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Over the last 15 years, privacy actions have been recognised at common law or in equity across common law jurisdictions, and statutory privacy protections have proliferated. Apex courts are now being called upon to articulate the law governing remedies, including in high-profile litigation concerning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The purpose of this book is to provide a clear guide to tort law, examining the main principles and areas of the subject. It includes text emphasizing the main issues of liability. The text incorporates relevant materials, extracts from leading judgments, articles and reports of review bodies on tort...
by Nayab Naseer
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This book covers the basics of the law of torts, such as what is tort, different between tort, contract and crime, essential conditions of a liability in tort, defenses available when someone accuses you of harming them, the doctrines of strict and absolute liability, liability of occupiers, how to...
On Rumors
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic situation, and nefarious plans and plots, those who spread rumors know precisely what they are doing. And in the era of social media and the Internet, they know a lot about how...
by Brendan Greene
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Course Notes is designed to help you succeed in your law examinations and assessments. Each guide supports revision of an undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree module by demonstrating good practice in creating and maintaining ideal notes. Course Notes will support you in actively and effectively...
by Alan Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Friend of the Court
On the Front Lines with the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession. Floyd Abrams has been on the front lines of nearly every one of these major cases, which is also to say that, more than any...
The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
Income Tax Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income Tax Law, Edward McCaffery presents an accessible introduction to the major topics in the field of federal income taxation, such as income, deductions, and recognition of gains and losses. After discussing central rules and doctrines individually, Edward...
Judge and Jury
American Tort Law on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Is the United States tort system in crisis? CBS television’s 60 Minutes has said the tort system metes out "jackpot justice," and Newsweek has called America a "Lawsuit Hell." Other observers of the legal system, however, argue that the tort crisis is a myth. Although both sides...
When Lawyers Screw Up
Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This in an industry, legal services, generating nearly $300 billion a year in revenue...
Lawyer Barons
What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance. Contingency fees are the way personal injury lawyers finance access to the courts for those wrongfully injured. Although the public senses...
Blocking the Courthouse Door
How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Thanks to constant political oratory against "frivolous lawsuits" and "jackpot justice," it is widely known that there's a legal crisis in this country. President Bush never misses an opportunity to call for laws that would bring more "common sense" to a legal system that, he claims, is out of control,...
Fault Lines
Tort Law as Cultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Private Law in Theory and Practice explores important theoretical issues in tort law, the law of contract and the law of unjust enrichment and relates the theory to judicial decision-making in these areas of private law. Topics covered include the politics and philosophy of tort law reform, the role...